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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 08, 2011
Filed:
Oct. 26, 2005
Heyun Zheng, Altamonte Springs, FL (US);
Heyun Zheng, Altamonte Springs, FL (US);
MeshNetworks, Inc., Maitland, FL (US);
Abstract
A system and method for providing secure communication between nodes () in a wireless multihopping communication network (). The system and method achieve secure communication in a multihopping wireless network () by, for example, providing a transport medium for transmission of multihopping authentication messages () by the infrastructure devices, such as intelligent access points () or wireless routers (), and user devices, such as mobile nodes (). The authentication messages () are used to verify the identity of a node () to thus permit the node () to communicate within the network (). The system and method further use, for example, encryption techniques for protecting the content data packet () traffic being transmitted the nodes () within the wireless network ().