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Secure Routing in Wireless Mesh Networks

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Secure communication

Definition

A secure routing protocol guarantees that the routing service works correctly, i.e., delivers packets between a source and one or multiple destinations without being altered, delayed, or dropped by intermediate forwarder nodes.

Background

Routing protocols ensure that data sent by the source is routed across the network and reaches the destination. The destination can be a single node (unicast routing) or multiple nodes (multicast routing). Most of the routing protocols for ad hoc wireless networks have a route establishment phase where a routing path is established and selected based on a metric (typically hop-count) and a data forwarding phase in which nodes on the path forwards packets to a particular destination.

Wireless mesh networks (WMNs) share a lot of similarities with mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs), as in both, communication is done using wireless transmissions in a multi-hop fashion (i.e., the communication between source and...

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Computer Science, Purdue University, 305 N University Street, 47907, West Lafayette, IN, USA

    Cristina Nita-Rotaru (Dr.) & Jing Dong

  2. Department of Computer Science, New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), GITC 4301, 218 Central Ave, 07102, Newark, NJ, USA

    Reza Curtmola (Dr.)

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  1. Cristina Nita-Rotaru
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  1. Department of Mathematics and Computing Science, Eindhoven University of Technology, 5600 MB, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

    Henk C. A. van Tilborg

  2. Center for Secure Information Systems, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, 22030-4422, USA

    Sushil Jajodia

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Nita-Rotaru, C., Dong, J., Curtmola, R. (2011). Secure Routing in Wireless Mesh Networks. In: van Tilborg, H.C.A., Jajodia, S. (eds) Encyclopedia of Cryptography and Security. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-5906-5_884

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