On Securing HWMP Using IBC

In this paper, we propose a security mechanisms for the Hybrid-Wireless-Mesh Protocol (HWMP). Our mechanisms is based on the Identity Based Crytography. The motivation behind using IBC is that it eliminates the need to verify the authenticity of public keys. We have implemented the IBC technique to secure control message in HWMP, namely RREQ and RREP. In these Control messages, we interested only by the mutable fields (i.e. fields that an changing during control packet exchange). Throuhg simulation, we have evaluted the performance of our security mechanism in terms of control overhead, and does not induce too much overhead compared to the original HWMP (i.e. without security).

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