Secure Wireless Mesh Network based on Human Immune System and Self-Organizing Map

Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs) are evolving as a future generation wireless mobile networks and bring the dream of connected world into reality. According to 802.11s standard Nodes in a mesh network can be divided into four classes, Client or Station (STA), Mesh Point (MP), Mesh Access Point (MAP) and Mesh Portal Point (MPP). Client is a node that requests services but does not contribute in path discovery, Mesh Point (MP) is a node that participates in the mesh operations, Mesh Access Point (MAP) is a MP attached to an access point (AP) to provide services for clients (STA), and Mesh Portal Point (MPP) is a MP with additional functionality to act as a gateway between the mesh and an external network (Hidenori et al., 2006). Fig 1 shows WMN architecture according to 802.11s standard.