期刊名称：International Journal of Computer Science and Information Technologies
电子版ISSN：0975-9646
出版年度：2012
卷号：3
期号：2
页码：3476-3478
出版社：TechScience Publications
摘要：Wireless mesh networks (WMNs) capability for self-organization reduces the complexity of network deployment and maintenance, and thus, offers inexpensive wireless coverage over large areas via use of wireless multi-hopping to wire line gateway nodes. Securing WMNs is a great challenge of because they are subject to various kinds of attacks due to their dynamic wireless and distributed nature. Various security mechanisms based on cryptographic keys involving a high degree key management were used in WMNs. One such secure scheme SKeMS that implements an encryption key assignment and is very effective in reducing eavesdropping attacks, usual threat in WMNs. Compared with previous schemes, SKeMS assigns the available encryption keys among all the nodes in the network. We propose to use SkeMS in combination with an intrusion detection system to enhance overall security measures in WMNs. An implementation of the proposed scheme shows that it is resilient against malicious eavesdropping attack.
