SWMM: Secure Wireless Mobility Management

Abstract

Mesh technology has captured the interest of university research and industry, because of its capacity to meet at the same time the requirements of suppliers of wireless access to Internet and of users. But, the architecture and the configuration of this type of network do not ensure a protection against the unauthorized use of the network since the basic security measures used do not include the notion of mobility, which characterizes these networks. Our endeavor in this paper is to introduce a secure re-authentication mechanism named SWMM (Secure Wireless Mobility Management), which is carried out during the cross of mobile stations by different nodes to allow users fulfilling an effective and reliable handoff as well as a secure access to services offered in Mesh network. Our study shows that SWMM outperforms other existing method, as a result of a comparison in term of handoff latency, loss and blocking rate.