Impact of transmission power on the performance of secure wireless local area network

Author

Singh, Upendra ; Jindal, Poonam

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. & Commun. Eng., Nat. Inst. of Technol., Kurukshetra, India

fYear

2014

fDate

28-30 May 2014

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

IEEES02.11 wireless networks have become one of the most widely used. Due to open nature of wireless medium, information transmitted over the wireless channel is vulnerable to security attacks. Thus security in wireless network is a big challenge. In the present work an experimental analysis to study the impact of transmission power of access point on the performance of secure wireless network is analyzed in terms of throughput and response time in roaming scenario for IEEES02.11n WLAN standard. From the obtained numerical values, it is found that the security performance of transmission power slightly changes on varying the transmit power from high to medium level for both UDP and TCP traffic but on varying the power from medium to low level, the network throughput performance for UDP and TCP traffic is decreased by 2-5% & 16-22% and response time is increased by 2-6% & 21-27% with packet size respectively.

Keywords

computer network security; telecommunication power management; telecommunication standards; telecommunication traffic; transport protocols; wireless LAN; wireless channels; IEEE 802.11 wireless network; IEEE 802.11n WLAN standard; TCP traffic; UDP traffic; access point; information transmission; network throughput; packet size; power transmission impact; response time; roaming scenario; wireless channel; wireless local area network security; IEEE 802.11; TCP; Transmission power; UDP; WEP; WPA; WPA2; heterogeneous network; security protocols;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering and Systems (SCES), 2014 Students Conference on

Conference_Location

Allahabad

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-4940-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SCES.2014.6880056

Filename

6880056