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SAT: A Security Architecture Achieving Anonymity and Traceability in Wireless Mesh Networks
March/April 2011 (vol. 8 no. 2)
pp. 295-307
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Jinyuan Sun, Chi Zhang, Yanchao Zhang, Yuguang Fang, "SAT: A Security Architecture Achieving Anonymity and Traceability in Wireless Mesh Networks," IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 295-307, March/April, 2011.
 
 
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@article{ 10.1109/TDSC.2009.50,
author = {Jinyuan Sun and Chi Zhang and Yanchao Zhang and Yuguang Fang},
title = {SAT: A Security Architecture Achieving Anonymity and Traceability in Wireless Mesh Networks},
journal ={IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing},
volume = {8},
number = {2},
issn = {1545-5971},
year = {2011},
pages = {295-307},
doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/TDSC.2009.50},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA},
}
 
 
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TY - JOUR
JO - IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing
TI - SAT: A Security Architecture Achieving Anonymity and Traceability in Wireless Mesh Networks
IS - 2
SN - 1545-5971
SP295
EP307
EPD - 295-307
A1 - Jinyuan Sun,
A1 - Chi Zhang,
A1 - Yanchao Zhang,
A1 - Yuguang Fang,
PY - 2011
KW - Anonymity
KW - traceability
KW - pseudonym
KW - misbehavior
KW - revocation
KW - wireless mesh network (WMN).
VL - 8
JA - IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing
ER -
 
Jinyuan Sun, University of Florida, Gainesville
Chi Zhang, University of Florida, Gainesville
Yanchao Zhang, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark
Yuguang Fang, University of Florida, Gainesville
Anonymity has received increasing attention in the literature due to the users' awareness of their privacy nowadays. Anonymity provides protection for users to enjoy network services without being traced. While anonymity-related issues have been extensively studied in payment-based systems such as e-cash and peer-to-peer (P2P) systems, little effort has been devoted to wireless mesh networks (WMNs). On the other hand, the network authority requires conditional anonymity such that misbehaving entities in the network remain traceable. In this paper, we propose a security architecture to ensure unconditional anonymity for honest users and traceability of misbehaving users for network authorities in WMNs. The proposed architecture strives to resolve the conflicts between the anonymity and traceability objectives, in addition to guaranteeing fundamental security requirements including authentication, confidentiality, data integrity, and nonrepudiation. Thorough analysis on security and efficiency is incorporated, demonstrating the feasibility and effectiveness of the proposed architecture.

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Index Terms:
Anonymity, traceability, pseudonym, misbehavior, revocation, wireless mesh network (WMN).
Citation:
Jinyuan Sun, Chi Zhang, Yanchao Zhang, Yuguang Fang, "SAT: A Security Architecture Achieving Anonymity and Traceability in Wireless Mesh Networks," IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 295-307, March-April 2011, doi:10.1109/TDSC.2009.50
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