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Anonymous user communication for privacy protection in wireless metropolitan mesh networks

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Zhiguo Wan,

Kui Ren,

Bo Zhu,

Bart Preneel,

Ming GuAuthors Info & Claims

ASIACCS '09: Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Information, Computer, and Communications Security

Pages 368 - 371

https://doi.org/10.1145/1533057.1533106

Published: 10 March 2009 Publication History

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Wireless mesh network (WMN) provides a low-cost, convenient solution to the last-mile network connectivity problem. As such, existing route protocols designed to provide security and privacy protection for ad hoc networks are not applicable in WMNs anymore. In this paper, we propose a solution for security and privacy protection for WMNs. The scheme relies on group signatures and anonymous mutual key agreement to deliver security and privacy protection. By enforcing access control using user credentials, the user's identity is only disclosed to mesh routers. Finally, we analyze our scheme in terms of security, privacy and performance.

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ASIACCS '09: Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Information, Computer, and Communications Security

March 2009

408 pages

ISBN:9781605583945

DOI:10.1145/1533057

General Chairs:
Wanqing Li
University of Wollongong, Australia
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Willy Susilo
University of Wollongong, Australia
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Udaya Tupakula
Macquarie University, Australia
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Program Chairs:
Rei Safavi-Naini
University of Calgary, Canada
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Vijay Varadharajan
Macquarie University, Australia

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Asia CCS 09: Asia CCS 2009 ACM Symposium on Information, Computer and Communications Security

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Ren KYu SLou WZhang Y(2019)PEACEIEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems10.1109/TPDS.2009.5921:2(203-215)Online publication date: 1-Jan-2019
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1109/TPDS.2009.59
Sun JZhang CZhang YFang Y(2018)SATIEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing10.1109/TDSC.2009.508:2(295-307)Online publication date: 21-Dec-2018
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1109/TDSC.2009.50

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