Behavioral Modeling for Public Safety Communication in Wireless Mesh Networking

Accompanying dramatic advances in wireless Mesh networking, the demand for advanced mechanisms to employ wireless Mesh networks in public safety continues to grow. However, this special field communication brings new security challenges. In this paper, we import the expectancy-value theory in cognitive psychology to behavioral evaluation of node and propose a behavioral model named NODE EYE for public safety communication in wireless Mesh networks and exercise the model to reason a variation of station-to-station key agreement protocol. We contend that our model facilitates reasoning about protocols designed for public safety by integrating the behavioral trust and cryptographic aspects of communication in the special field. We illustrate our concept by introducing the key agreement to support the special communication cases associated with the public safety.

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