Recently, multihop wireless mesh networks (WMNs) have involved increasing attention and deployment as a low-cost move toward to give broadband Internet access at an urban scale. Security and privacy issues are of the major concern in pushing the success of WMNs for their broad deployment and for behind service-oriented applications. Regardless of the required, partial security research has been conducted toward privacy protection in WMNs. This motivates us to develop Anonymous and Accountable communication topology (AACT), a novel secure communication framework, tailored for WMNs. On one hand, AACT implements harsh user access control to cope with both free riders and spiteful users. On the other hand, AACT offers complicated user privacy protection beside both adversaries and a range of other network entities. AACT is accessible as a suite of authentication and key agreement protocols built upon our AACT. Our analysis demonstrates that AACT is resilient to a number of security and privacy related attacks. Additional methods were also discussed to further improve scheme efficiency
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