Research on Key Authentication Mechanisms of Wireless Local Area Network

Author

Xiong Ying ; Cheng Yu

Author_Institution

Sch. of Comput., Hubei Univ. of Technol., Wuhan, China

fYear

2010

fDate

22-23 May 2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

Access control based on authentication and authorization is essential to design a good wireless local area network (WLAN). This paper introduces several key authentication technologies of WLAN, including open system authentication and shared key authentication used in IEEE 802.11b standard, EAP used in IEEE802.1x and WAI used in WAPI. Different superiorities and deficiencies have been presented in details. Based on WAPI, an improved method is proposed in order to enhance the security of WLAN. In the end, the paper concludes that a multi-layered security system combined with various methods and technologies still require further studies.

Keywords

IEEE standards; authorisation; message authentication; telecommunication security; wireless LAN; IEEE 802.11b standard; IEEE802.1x; WAI; WAPI; WLAN; access control; authorization; key authentication mechanisms; multilayered security system; open system authentication; shared key authentication; wireless local area network; Authentication; Authorization; Computer networks; Cryptography; Open systems; Paper technology; Privacy; Radio frequency; Security; Wireless LAN;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Intelligent Systems and Applications (ISA), 2010 2nd International Workshop on

Conference_Location

Wuhan

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-5872-1

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-5874-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IWISA.2010.5473536

Filename

5473536