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ICNP '02 Proceedings of the 10th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols
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ISCC '02 Proceedings of the Seventh International Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC'02)
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ACM Transactions on Information and System Security (TISSEC)
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IEEE Wireless Communications
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Proceedings of the 28th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing
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Wireless mesh networks (WMNs) have emerged recently as a technology for next-generation wireless networking. In this paper we propose MobiSEC, a complete security architecture that provides both access control for mesh users and routers as well as security and data confidentiality of all communications that occur in the WMN. MobiSEC extends the IEEE 802.11i standard exploiting the routing capabilities of mesh routers; after connecting to the access network as generic wireless clients, new mesh routers authenticate to a central server and obtain a temporary key that is used both to prove their credentials to neighbor nodes and to encrypt all the traffic transmitted on the wireless backbone links. A key feature in the design of MobiSEC is its independence from the underlying wireless technology used by network nodes to form the backbone; furthermore, MobiSEC permits seamless mobility of both mesh clients and routers. We implemented MobiSEC in a real-life test-bed and measured its performance in different network scenarios. Numerical results show that our proposed architecture increases considerably the WMN security with a negligible impact on the network performance, thus representing an effective solution for wireless mesh networking.