An Energy Efficient Authentication and Key Management Protocol for 802.11 WLANs

Author

Kiratiwintakorn, Phongsak ; Krishnamurthy, Prashant

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., King Mongkut´´s Inst. of Technol., Bangkok

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0

fDate

0-0 0

Firstpage

448

Lastpage

453

Abstract

Due to the scarce resources of small devices in wireless networks, it is preferable that security protocols be lightweight and energy efficient while being secure. In this paper, we describe the existing WLAN standard for authentication and key management (AKM), namely, IEEE 802.11i. The AKM protocol in 802.11i can be fairly energy hungry especially when mobile stations roam or temporarily disconnect from the infrastructure. We demonstrate the possibility of maintaining and allowing secure roaming and reconnections in WLANs while reducing the energy consumption of devices by proposing two modifications to the 802.11i protocol that are lightweight and energy-efficient. We provide performance comparison between our proposed schemes and the standard schemes

Keywords

IEEE standards; message authentication; protocols; telecommunication network management; telecommunication security; wireless LAN; 802.11i WLAN standard; AKM; authentication-key management; mobile station roam; security protocol; Authentication; Cryptographic protocols; Energy consumption; Energy efficiency; Energy management; Roaming; Security; Wireless LAN; Wireless application protocol; Wireless networks; Authentication; Energy Efficiency; Key Management; WLAN;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information, Communications and Signal Processing, 2005 Fifth International Conference on

Conference_Location

Bangkok

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9283-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICICS.2005.1689086

Filename

1689086