An Instant Authentication Scheme in Wireless Mesh Networks

Authentication is a basic mechanism for secure roaming in wireless mesh networks (WMNs). However, existing roaming authentication protocols such as 3G, IEEE 802.1x, etc. cannot meet the requirement for secure and fast network access in response to rapid increase in the size of networks and in the number of users. In this paper, we propose an instant authentication scheme for secure roaming in WMNs in which information exchange between a visited...