Wireless Networks and Security: Issues, Challenges and Research Trends

ISBN-13: 9783642438448 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 512 str.

Al-Sakib Khan Pathan;Shafiullah Khan (Kohat University of Sci

Opis

This book provides broad coverage of wireless security issues including cryptographic coprocessors, encryption, authentication, key management, attacks and countermeasures, secure routing, intrusion detection, epidemics, security performance analysis and more.

Recenzje

From the reviews:

"This edited collection provides a timely summary of recent research efforts in the wireless networks area, including a broad understanding of the issues and challenges and a discussion of security. ... this is a useful work for students and practitioners ... ." (Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo, Computing Reviews, September, 2013)

Spis treści

Security in Amateur Packet Radio Networks.- Security Issues in Mobile Ad hoc Network.- Secure AODV Routing Protocol Based on Trust Mechanism.- Security and Privacy in Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks: survey and the road ahead.- Security issues and approaches on wireless M2M systems.- Security and Privacy in Wireless Body Area Networks for Health Care Applications.- Security and Privacy Issues in Wireless Mesh Networks: A Survey.- Trust Establishment Techniques in VANET.- Improving the Security of Wireless Sensor Networks by Protecting the Sensor Nodes against Side Channel Attacks.- Intrusion Detection in Wireless Sensor Networks: Issues, Challenges and Approaches.- Network Coding for Security in Wireless Reconfigurable Networks.- A Secure Intragroup Time Synchronization technique to improve the security and performance of Group-based Wireless Sensor Networks.- Capacity-approaching Channel Codes for Discrete Variable Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) Applications.-A Comparative Study on Security implementation in EPS/LTE and WLAN/802.11.

Blurb

 “Wireless Networks and Security” provides a 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. The contributions identify various vulnerabilities in the physical layer, MAC layer, network layer, transport layer, and application layer, and focus on ways of strengthening security mechanisms and services throughout the layers. This carefully edited monograph is targeting  for researchers, post-graduate students in universities, academics, and industry practitioners or professionals.