SLAB: A secure localized authentication and billing scheme for wireless mesh networks

Abstract--The future metropolitan-area wireless mesh networks (WMNs) are expected to contain compromise-prone Mesh Access Points (MAPs) with a high frequency of inter-domain roaming/handoff events. This paper introduces a novel secure localized authentication and billing (SLAB) scheme, which aims to address both security guarantee and performance in terms of system compromise resilience capability, inter-domain handoff authentication latency, and workload of the roaming broker (RB). With extensive analysis and simulation, we demonstrate that the proposed scheme can be a practical solution for achieving secure roaming and billing in metropolitan-area WMNs.

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2008
• Where: TWC
• Authors: Haojin Zhu, Xiaodong Lin, Rongxing Lu, Pin-Han Ho, Xuemin Shen
• Keywords: Inter-domain Handoff Authentication, Secure Localized Authentication, TWC 2008, Wireless Mesh Networks