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How to secure multi-domain wireless mesh networks

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Due to the ease of deployment and low cost, wireless mesh networks have been deployed in many metropolitan areas and business units. How to establish secure communications among the communication entities such as mesh routers and mobile clients (or mesh clients) even when roaming to different mesh networks (called mesh domains) is a challenging task. In this paper, we leverage the ID-based cryptography and propose a novel secure architecture to enable secure communications in large-scale multi-domain wireless mesh networks. Under this architecture, mesh clients can conveniently gain services securely even when roaming.

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  1. It is computationally infeasible to extract the integer \(x\in {\mathbb{Z}}_{q}^{\ast}=\{i|1\leq i\leq q-1\}\), given \(P,Q\in {\mathbb{G}}_1\) (respectively, \(P,Q\in {\mathbb{G}}_2\)) such that Q =  xP (respectively, Q = P x).

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This work was partially supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation under grant CNS-0626881 and 111 Project in China under Grant B08038. The work of Zhu was also partially supported by the National Science Foundation of China under grant 60772136 and the China 863 Project under grant 2007AA01Z435.

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  1. National Key Laboratory of Integrated Services Networks, Xidian University, Xi’an, 710071, China

    Xiaoyan Zhu, Yuguang Fang & Yumin Wang

  2. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, 32611, USA

    Yuguang Fang

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Zhu, X., Fang, Y. & Wang, Y. How to secure multi-domain wireless mesh networks. Wireless Netw 16, 1215–1222 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11276-009-0198-6

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