Patent ID: 9503891
Filing Date: 2016-11-22
CPC Classification: H04L,H04W

Claim Text:
1. An authentication method of a wireless mesh network, comprising: selecting, by a new node, a first neighbor node among one or more adjacent nodes; transmitting, by the new node, an authentication request message including a public key of the new node; authenticating, by the first neighbor node, the public key of the new node; transmitting, by the first neighbor node, an authentication response message including a public key of the first neighbor node to the new node; and authenticating, by the new node, the public key of the first neighbor node; transmitting, by the new node, an authentication identification message to the first neighbor node, wherein the authentication request message and the authentication response message include a transmitting node identifier, a receiving node identifier, a certificate issued from an authentication server, an electronic signature algorithm used for the certificate, and an encryption algorithm, wherein the certificate includes public keys of each node.