A novel simulation platform for WLAN security protocols

Because of enormous complexity of security protocols and lack of efficient security protocol modeling method, how to evaluate the WLAN security protocols poses unique and formidable challenges. To address this issue, a universal and extensible simulation platform for WLAN security protocols is proposed. First, the architecture of the platform is presented, which provides a unified interface to extend various security protocols. Second, a general method to standardize the extension process is demonstrated. Finally, according to the proposed architecture and method, the simulation platform based on OPNET is implemented, and its feasibility, correctness and universality are validated through extending and simulating a concrete protocol. The results show that our simulation platform is universal and extensible.