Wireless Networks and Security
Subtitle: Issues, Challenges and Research Trends
By: edited by Shafiullah Khan, Al-Sakib Khan Pathan
Contributors: Khan Pathan, Al-Sakib; SpringerLink (Online service)
Series: Signals and Communication Technology
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg; Imprint: Springer
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Berlin, Heidelberg
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 512
ISBN-13: 9783642361692
Subjects: Data protection; Engineering; Networks Communications Engineering; Systems and Data Security; Telecommunication
Description: <p> “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.</p><p> </p>
Table of contents: title: From the contents: Security in Amateur Packet Radio Networks; title: Security Issues in Mobile Ad hoc Network; title: Secure AODV Routing Protocol Based on Trust Mechanism; title: Security and Privacy in Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks: survey and the road ahead; title: Security issues and approaches on wireless M2M systems; title: Security and Privacy in Wireless Body Area Networks for Health Care Applications; title: Security and Privacy Issues in Wireless Mesh Networks: A Survey; title: Trust Establishment Techniques in VANET.