Impact of Security on the Performance of Wireless-Local Area Networks

Author

Barka, Ezedin ; Boulmalf, Mohammed ; Alteniji, Amal ; Al Suwaidi, H. ; Khazaimy, Huda ; Al Mansouri, M.

Author_Institution

United Arab Emirates Univ., Al-Ain

fYear

2006

fDate

Nov. 2006

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

This paper investigates the impact of security on the performance of WLAN. More specifically, it analyzes the impact of applying encryption used by the well-known security protocol wired equivalent privacy (WEP) on the data rate over an ad hoc WLAN, IEEE 802.11g. This paper also addresses the different issues related to the security protocols currently used in WLAN IEEE 802.11g and demonstrates how these issues affect the final results of the experiments conducted. The main result is that the security adds moderate degradation the throughput that may affect applications over access points in ad-hoc networks

Keywords

ad hoc networks; cryptography; data privacy; protocols; wireless LAN; IEEE 802.11g; ad hoc network; encryption; security protocol; wired equivalent privacy; wireless local area networks; Communication system security; Cryptography; Data privacy; Data security; Radio broadcasting; Radio frequency; Testing; Throughput; Wireless LAN; Wireless application protocol;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Innovations in Information Technology, 2006

Conference_Location

Dubai

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0674-9

Electronic_ISBN

1-4244-0674-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/INNOVATIONS.2006.301894

Filename

4085411