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This timely volume, Wireless Network Security, provides broad coverage of wireless security issues including cryptographic coprocessors, encryption, authentication, key management, attacks and countermeasures, secure routing, secure medium access control, intrusion detection, epidemics, security performance analysis, security issues in applications, and much more. The contributions identify various vulnerabilities in the physical layer, MAC layer, IP layer, transport layer, and application layer, and focus on ways for strengthening security mechanisms and services throughout the layers.
The book includes 15 rigorously refereed chapters from prominent international researchers working in this subject area. The material serves as a useful reference for researchers, graduate students, and practitioners seeking solutions to wireless and mobile security related issues.
List of contents
Security in General Wireless/Mobile Networks.- High Performance Elliptic Curve Cryptographic Co-processor.- An Adaptive Encryption Protocol in Mobile Computing.- Security in Ad Hoc Network.- Pre-Authentication and Authentication Models in Ad Hoc Networks.- Promoting Identity-Based Key Management in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks.- A Survey of Attacks and Countermeasures in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks.- Secure Routing in Wireless Ad-Hoc Networks.- A Survey on Intrusion Detection in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks.- Security in Mobile Cellular Networks.- Intrusion Detection in Cellular Mobile Networks.- The Spread of Epidemics on Smartphones.- Security in Wireless LANs.- Cross-Domain Mobility-Adaptive Authentication.- AAA Architecture and Authentication for Wireless Lan roaming.- An Experimental Study on Security Protocols in Wlans.- Security in Sensor Networks.- Security Issues in Wireless Sensor Networks Used in Clinical Information Systems.- Key Management Schemes in Sensor Networks.- Secure Routing in AD HOC and Sensor Networks.
Summary
This book identifies vulnerabilities in the physical layer, the MAC layer, the IP layer, the transport layer, and the application layer, of wireless networks, and discusses ways to strengthen security mechanisms and services. Topics covered include intrusion detection, secure PHY/MAC/routing protocols, attacks and prevention, immunization, key management, secure group communications and multicast, secure location services, monitoring and surveillance, anonymity, privacy, trust establishment/management, redundancy and security, and dependable wireless networking.
