Title: Common key multi-hop packet authentication protocol for wireless mesh networks

Authors: Vanlalhruaia Chhakchhuak; Ajoy Kumar Khan; Amit Kumar Roy

Addresses: Mizoram University, Aizawl, Mizoram, India ' Mizoram University, Aizawl, Mizoram, India ' Indian Institute of Information Technology, Kottayam, Kerala, India

Abstract: To achieve security with efficiency in wireless mesh networks (WMNs) is an important issue due to its distributed nature and absence of centralised authority. Due to the absence of central authority, the authentication becomes a challenging task in WMNs. Several attacks could be easily launched in WMNs such as replay attack and impersonation attack. These types of attacks could be launched by an intruders by injecting malicious packets throughout the network among mesh entities. Therefore to overcome from such attacks, we had proposed an efficient multi-hop packet authentication protocol known as 'efficient packet authentication through Diffie-Hellman approach (EPADH)'. Through experimental results, our proposed protocol ensures packet authentication which resists the mentioned attacks and offers efficiency in terms of latency, throughput, packet delivery ratio, and memory utilisation.

Keywords: WMNs architecture; attack types; packet authentication; data integration; Diffie-Hellman.

DOI: 10.1504/IJICS.2025.146158

International Journal of Information and Computer Security, 2025 Vol.26 No.3, pp.236 - 254

Received: 06 Apr 2023
Accepted: 02 Mar 2024
Published online: 08 May 2025 *

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