GMSP: A Generalized Multi-hop Security Protocol for Heterogeneous Multi-hop Wireless Network

Multi-hop cellular networks offer attractive benefits for the next generation of wireless communication by integrating ad hoc relaying to cellular networks. However, most of the existing architectures and protocols for multi-hop cellular networks suffer from a variety of security threats in an adversarial environment. The existing architectures and protocols are not capable of providing end-to-end security protection for mobile users. A Generalized Multi-hop Security Protocol (GMSP) is proposed in this paper to achieve an effective route discovery protection from a range of potential security threats. The proposed multi-hop security protocol integrates mobile IP security and ad hoc security schemes. Moreover, the proposed protocol is flexible enough for fulfilling security protection for most existing heterogeneous multi-hop cellular architectures.