Secure Mechanism for Handling Targeted Attacks in Infrastructure Based Wireless Mesh Networks

Abstract

Infrastructure based Wireless mesh networks allow heterogeneous types of networks to be connected at a time through wireless mesh routers. Since the nodes of every network have different processing power, bandwidth, amount of energy etc. so this situation can lead to targeted attacks. An Internet connected node can easily generate flood over a node of sensor network. So to handle these types of attacks we in this paper introduced a new secure authentication mechanism that works when a potential of attack is detected. Moreover we also authorized the nodes of the wireless mesh network to demand data according to their capacity by using pull data traffic control mechanism. We applied this solution first on mesh routers to discourage targeted attacks and secondly we applied the solution on an individual node that lies in between a node and mesh router.