WPA2 security-bandwith trade-off in 802.11n peer-peer WLAN for IPv4 and IPv6 using Windows XP and Windows 7 operating systems

Author

Kolahi, Samad Salehi ; Li, Peng ; Argawe, Mulugeta ; Safdari, Mustafa

Author_Institution

Unitec Inst. of Technol., Auckland, New Zealand

fYear

2012

fDate

1-4 July 2012

Abstract

In this paper, we present new results on the performance of IEEE 802.11n using open system (no security) and WPA2 security for Windows XP and Windows 7. Enabling WPA2 security results in approximately 4.4 Mbps less TCP throughput than open system for both IPv4 and IPv6 on Windows XP and up to 2.8 Mbps less TCP throughput for Windows 7. For both open system and WPA2 security, Windows 7 provides higher IPv4 and IPv6 bandwidth than Windows XP and IPv4 provides higher bandwidth than IPv6.

Keywords

Internet; computer network security; operating systems (computers); transport protocols; wireless LAN; 802.11n peer-peer WLAN; IPv4; IPv6; Internet protocol version 4; Internet protocol version 6; TCP; WPA2 security-bandwith trade-off; Wi-Fi protected access version 2; Windows 7 operating system; Windows XP operating system; open system security; transport control protocol; wireless fidelity; wireless local area network; Bandwidth; IEEE 802.11n Standard; Open systems; Operating systems; Security; Throughput; Wireless LAN; Bandwidth; IPv4; IPv6; WPA2 Security;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computers and Communications (ISCC), 2012 IEEE Symposium on

Conference_Location

Cappadocia

ISSN

1530-1346

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-2712-1

Electronic_ISBN

1530-1346

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISCC.2012.6249358

Filename

6249358