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A Survey of Wireless Mesh Networking Security Technology and Threats

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A Survey of Wireless Mesh Networking Security Technology and Threats (PDF, 2.90MB)Published: 18 Oct, 2006
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Anthony Gerkis

This paper will summarize the technologies and challenges related to wireless mesh networks. With the latest technologies in wireless LAN with WPA and 802.11i, enterprise deployments have finally begun to embrace wireless access networks. Wireless LAN technology has often been approached cautiously in enterprise deployments, partly due to well-known and easily exploitable attacks on early 802.11 security technology and partly due to the lack of physical control of the access medium.