Efficient Key Management Mechanism with Trusted Gateways for Wireless Mesh Networks

Table 1

Distributed authentication scheme notations.

	Set of trusted gateway nodes
	gateway node
and	Public and private key pair of
	Message singed by
	Mesh routers
	mesh router belongs to
	Neighboring mesh routers
	neighboring router for
and	Public and private key pair of
and	Authentication information table of and
	Mesh router key identifier
	AES-128 bit session key
	New router timeout interval
	Maximum waiting time of members
	Authentication request of
	Deauthentication request of
	authentication reply for
	deauthentication reply for
	Node disjoint paths
	Collision free one-way hash function (key uses)