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

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 3858-3868

  Zhu, Haojin ^a   Lin, Xiaodong ^a   Lu, Rongxing ^a   Ho, Pin Han ^a   Shen, Xuemin Sherman ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Authentication and billing; Inter domain handoff; Security; Wireless mesh networks

Indexed keywords

ACCESS CONTROL; AUTHENTICATION; LOCAL AREA NETWORKS; METROPOLITAN AREA NETWORKS; WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN);

ACCESS POINTS; BILLING SCHEMES; DO-MAINS; HIGH FREQUENCIES; INTER-DOMAIN HANDOFF; INTER-DOMAIN HANDOFFS; PRACTICAL SOLUTIONS; SECURITY; SECURITY GUARANTEES; WIRELESS MESH NETWORKS;

WIRELESS NETWORKS;

EID: 55149100626     PISSN: 15361276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/T-WC.2008.07418     Document Type: Article

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