Title :
Vulnerabilities and security enhancements for the IEEE 802.11 WLANs
Author :
Xiao, Yang ; Bandela, Chaitanya ; Pan, Yi
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Memphis Univ., TN, USA
fDate :
28 Nov.-2 Dec. 2005
Abstract :
This paper first surveys security vulnerabilities of IEEE 802.11 WLANs. Then, two approaches to enhance security are proposed to overcome some known vulnerabilities and thus to provide better data confidentiality and authentication. Finally, simulation methodology is presented, and simulate results are provided. Our studies show that the proposed enhancements provide better data confidentiality with some degree of computing cost as the tradeoff.
Keywords :
data privacy; security of data; telecommunication security; wireless LAN; IEEE 802.11 WLAN; data authentication; data confidentiality; security enhancements; vulnerabilities; Authentication; Communication system security; Computational modeling; Computer science; Cryptography; Data privacy; Data security; Local area networks; Protection; Wireless LAN;
Conference_Titel :
Global Telecommunications Conference, 2005. GLOBECOM '05. IEEE
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-9414-3
DOI :
10.1109/GLOCOM.2005.1577931
