ARSA: An attack-resilient security architecture for multihop wireless mesh networks

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

10-1-2006

Abstract

Multihop wireless mesh networks (WMNs) are finding ever-growing acceptance as a viable and effective solution to ubiquitous broadband Internet access. This paper addresses the security of WMNs, which is a key impediment to wide-scale deployment of WMNs, but thus far receives little attention. We first thoroughly identify the unique security requirements of WMNs for the first time in the literature. We then propose ARSA, an attack-resilient security architecture for WMNs. In contrast to a conventional cellular-like solution, ARSA eliminates the need for establishing bilateral roaming agreements and having real-time interactions between potentially numerous WMN operators. With ARSA in place, each user is no longer bound to any specific network operator, as he or she ought to do in current cellular networks. Instead, he or she acquires a universal pass from a third-party broker whereby to realize seamless roaming across WMN domains administrated by different operators. ARSA supports efficient mutual authentication and key agreement both between a user and a serving WMN domain and between users served by the same WMN domain. In addition, ARSA is designed to be resilient to a wide range of attacks. We also discuss other important issues such as incontestable billing. © 2006 IEEE.

Identifier

33749856769 (Scopus)

Publication Title

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications

External Full Text Location

https://doi.org/10.1109/JSAC.2006.877223

ISSN

07338716

First Page

1916

Last Page

1928

Issue

10

Volume

24

Grant

ANI-0093241

Fund Ref

National Science Foundation

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