Quantification of the Effect of Security on Performance in Wireless LANs

Author

Begh, Gh Rasool ; Mir, Ajaz Hussain

Author_Institution

Electron. & Commun. Eng. Dept., Nat. Inst. of Technol. Srinagar (J & K), Srinagar, India

fYear

2009

fDate

18-23 June 2009

Firstpage

57

Lastpage

62

Abstract

This paper investigates and quantifies the effect of different security protocols on the performance of a wireless LAN. Experiments were performed on a wireless test-bed and the data obtained was analyzed for throughput, delay and packet loss under different security scenarios. Both TCP and UDP traffic streams were analyzed at three different data rates. The effect of congestion is also quantified. The results reveal that no significant degradation in performance occurs by enabling security protocols in a wireless LAN.

Keywords

telecommunication security; telecommunication traffic; transport protocols; wireless LAN; TCP; UDP traffic; congestion effect; security effect quantification; security protocols; wireless LAN; Communication system security; Data analysis; Data security; Delay; Performance analysis; Performance evaluation; Testing; Throughput; Wireless LAN; Wireless application protocol; Packet Loss; TCP; UDP; WEP; WPA; Wireless LAN;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Emerging Security Information, Systems and Technologies, 2009. SECURWARE '09. Third International Conference on

Conference_Location

Athens, Glyfada

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-3668-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SECURWARE.2009.16

Filename

5211043