Cybersecurity and Distributed Systems

As an advanced civilization we rely on communication networks for many important tasks. Due to its necessity and enormity maintaining and securing such communication infrastructure is an important task. As most communication networks rely on centralized systems they are bound by the control of a central entity; hence the next step in an inter-connected world requires a decentralized distributed system that can also provide high levels of security. One possible solution is a dynamic distributed wireless mesh network as it provides all the features of a traditional network along with the flexibility of wireless communication and an infrastructure-less distributed setup.This book investigates the problems and limitations linked to secure dynamic wireless mesh networks and how they can be improved upon and proposes a new network model for a secure dynamic wireless mesh network including a new routing scheme and a security framework that not only strengthen and secure the dynamic wireless mesh networks but also significantly improve the performance and efficiency as compared to existing approaches.