A lightweight agent-based egress NAC on wireless LAN

Author

Puangpronpitag, Somnuk ; Suwannasa, Atthapol

Author_Institution

Fac. of Inf., Mahasarakham Univ., Thailand

Volume

2

fYear

2012

fDate

12-14 June 2012

Firstpage

614

Lastpage

618

Abstract

An egress Network Access Control (NAC) is widely deployed to control users in a wireless network. However, Medium Access Control (MAC) address spoofing is a technique that can easily bypass the egress NAC. So, this vulnerability is a big problem in almost all NAC systems around the world. To solve this problem, we proposeaVisa mechanism to enhance the egress NAC authentication. The mechanism needs only a JAVA applet to run without manually installing any agent-program. To evaluate our new mechanism, we have built a prototyped program, and experiment on a wireless test-bed. The performance evaluation has demonstrated favorable features of our new Visa mechanism.

Keywords

Java; access protocols; message authentication; multi-agent systems; wireless LAN; JAVA applet; MAC; Visa mechanism; agent-program; egress NAC authentication; lightweight agent-based egress NAC; medium access control address spoofing; network access control; performance evaluation; prototyped program; wireless LAN; wireless local area network; wireless test-bed; Authentication; IP networks; Java; Random access memory; Servers; Software; Wireless networks; Egress NAC; MAC Address Spoofing; Wireless LANauthentication;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer & Information Science (ICCIS), 2012 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Kuala Lumpeu

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-1937-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCISci.2012.6297103

Filename

6297103