A Security Architecture for IEEE 802.11 Wireless Networks in Large-Scale Multinational Corporations

Author

Wei, Nan ; Zhou, Jianying ; Xin, Yan ; Li, Liying

Author_Institution

Nat. Univ. of Singapore

fYear

2006

fDate

38869

Firstpage

846

Lastpage

849

Abstract

Nowadays, wireless local area networks (WLANs) are widely used in various environments, including business, education, government, public and individual. However, because the attacks against WLANs are easier than LAN, the security architectures in WLANs have been discussed frequently in recent years. This paper proposes a new security architecture that enhances the security of the WLANs based on the new IEEE 802.11i standard for large-scale multinational corporations. Furthermore, by adopting distributed authentication servers, it provides a better performance than the traditional architecture with a central authentication server

Keywords

message authentication; telecommunication security; wireless LAN; IEEE 802.11i standard; WLAN; distributed authentication server; large-scale multinational corporation; security architecture; wireless local area network; Access protocols; Authentication; Communication system security; Data security; Delay; Intrusion detection; Large-scale systems; Network servers; Wireless LAN; Wireless networks; Distributed authentication; IDS; VLAN IEEE802.11i; WLAN; Wireless Security;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

ITS Telecommunications Proceedings, 2006 6th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Chengdu

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9587-5

Electronic_ISBN

0-7803-9587-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ITST.2006.289031

Filename

4068719