A novel framework of secure network management for wireless and mobile networks

In wireless and mobile networks, the importance of network management becomes prominent, due to the prevalence of personal computing devices. These devices are able to offer their users with great convenience and flexible mobility. However, when the size of such a network is scalable, the difficulty of secure network management increases accordingly. In this paper, we primarily study the issues of secure network management. First of all, the necessity of managing a network in a securely way is discussed, along with the features of wireless devices and mobile networks. Then, we propose a secure framework for network management and group communication. In the proposed framework, a set of secure management mechanisms are involved to ensure the functions of group management and to protect the reliability of data exchange. The analysis of security mechanisms provides the provable secure properties of our framework, which is resilient to malicious behavior and able to guarantee the security of a network. Therefore, our proposed framework demonstrates a reliable paradigm for secure management and communication in wireless ad hoc networks.

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