Security Challenges and Solutions in Wireless Mesh Networks
Minseok Oh · 한국정보기술학회논문지 · 2012
A promising, low-cost alternative for providing last-mile wireless connectivity is the concept of Wireless Mesh Networks (WMN). The true potential of any network, however, cannot be exploited without considering and adequately addressing the security issues. The broadcast nature of transmission and the dependency on the intermediate nodes for routing the user traffic leads to security vulnerabilities making the WMN prone to various attacks. In this paper, we will discuss the security vulnerabilities in multi-hop wireless networks that are relevant to the WMN. We will consider the attacks in the MAC layer in the WMN in detail and the possible solution mechanisms in the MAC layer to prevent and detect these attacks.