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Security is a paramount concern in Wireless Mesh Networks (WMN) and also one of the core components in making WMNs successful and an enabler into different markets. A core challenge in securing the WMN is the large number of communication links over the air; as each mesh device may be mobile and deployed outdoors, each mesh link presents an exposure and vulnerability into the mesh network. These vulnerabilities are partially due to the structure of WMNs and cannot be removed easily. Security procedures present in 802.11s only take care of the potential security attacks in network association and secure link establishment. Ensuring that the routing protocol is secure is also not specified in the standard. In this paper we analyze the security problems in WMN and present few promising open research challenges which need immediate attention.
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Divya, Kumar, S. (2010). Security Challenges in Multihop Wireless Mesh Networks–A Survey. In: Weerasinghe, D. (eds) Information Security and Digital Forensics. ISDF 2009. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 41. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-11530-1_11
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