Privacy Issues in Single and Multi-hop Wireless Mesh Network

Abstract

Wireless mesh networks (WMN) provide fine solutions for commercial, personal and corporate purposes since it has the features of self-configuration, instantly deployable, low-cost. Mesh network utilizes the open medium property of Wireless channel, has a fixed topology, the limited network size and thus it is prone to attacks. Wireless network security protocols are easily prone to attacks such as brute-force attacks in case of wired equivalent privacy (WEP) and to some extent Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) as well. we are designing a layered encryption technique referred to as Onion that will make it more secure against global adversary attacks. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2013. General Terms: Security, Design.