Wireless LAN systems have been deployed for wireless internet services
for hot spots, home, or offices. Recently, WLAN-Based Mesh Networking
is developed with the benefit of easy deployment and easy configuration.
Due to the characteristic of distributed environment, Wireless Mesh Networks(
WMNs) need a new authentication scheme which allows multi-hop
communication. In this paper, we propose a distributed authentication method
which significantly eases the management burden and reduces the storage space
on mesh points, thus enables the secure and easy deployment of WMNs.