A novel cost effective authentication framework for Wireless LANs in small medium enterprises (SMEs)

Security is an issue that requires more attention in wireless communication due to the extreme flexible access offered by this technology. Wireless LAN has gained popularity in enterprises cause of the same reason the security mechanisms offered for Wireless LAN are expensive (normally require high processing and extra hardware), complex (based upon private and public cryptography and have their own weaknesses (key length issues, inherent issues of cryptographic algorithms) the financial constraints of small medium enterprises (SMEs) do not allow them to implement such expensive security solutions. In our research, we have proposed a novel cost effective authentication framework for Wireless LAN in SMEs. It is simple, as well as lightweight and does not consume huge processing cycles. It also does not require any additional hardware.