Improving the Handoff Latency of the Wireless Mesh Networks Standard

Improving the Quality of Service (QOS) for the next generation of mobile broadband wireless networks standards; IEEE802.16x becomes the main target for many new researches. This is due to the long time to complete the handover process from the old connection to the new connection in the proposed standard design. In this paper, an improvement to the IEEE 802.11based wireless mesh networks in terms of authentication latency is proposed. The current paper, proposes a new, easy, fast, and secure handover design. In addition to, a new security metric is presented, which is the ability of the authentication protocols to determine the identity of the users who make bad behaviors with a complete preservation to the privacy of the rest users. We can say that it's a very a difficult problem, due to the trade-off between the privacy and the non_ repudiation property. A formal authentication verification method is presented, using BAN logic analysis.