A Secure Authentication Scheme in Multi-operator Domain (SAMD) for Wireless Mesh Network

Abstract

Wireless mesh network (WMN) is considered to be an evolving technique because of self-configuration and adaptive features, it supports large-scale network especially in an organization and academics. As with any network, communication among nodes plays an important role, when two nodes in a network communicate with each other via the Internet, secure authentication is an imperative challenge. In literature, there are many approaches that have been suggested to deliver a secure authentication between nodes in wireless mesh network (WMN), however, all these outlines contain some disadvantages, i.e. management cost of the public key and system complexity. Our suggested proposed approach is dealing with one of the wireless mesh network challenges, i.e. Mutual authentication. Here in this we have considered the three authentication techniques, i.e. Inter-, Intra- and Inter-Operator domain authentication. SAMD (Secure Authentication Scheme in Multi-Operator Domain) hides the location, communication path and network access and apart from that it will resist to the adversary, key forgery and modification attack. As a result, we have assessed the performance of the proposed design in terms of Authentication cost, Encryption cost, Key validation, Key Generation, Throughput and System Delay, which indicates our scheme more efficient than other schemes. Results show that it will efficiently work in real-time traffic.