A lightweight authentication protocol for access control in IEEE 802.11

Author

Wang, Haoli ; Velayutham, Aravind ; Guan, Yong

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Iowa State Univ., Ames, IA, USA

Volume

3

fYear

2003

fDate

1-5 Dec. 2003

Firstpage

1384

Abstract

Wireless networks are becoming very popular and the IEEE 802.11 devices are widely used everywhere nowadays. New concerns are raised when it comes to wireless security. Since the current security scheme in IEEE 802.11 namely wired equivalent privacy (WEP) is known to be quite insecure, virtual private network (VPN) is used to solve the security problems in wireless networks. However, the use of both WEP and VPN causes authentication redundancy at the mobile hosts. This paper proposes a novel lightweight authentication protocol, consisting of a lightweight synchronization algorithm and a statistical scheme. A complete analysis, detailed implementation issues and evaluation for the authentication protocol are included in the paper.

Keywords

authorisation; message authentication; protocols; synchronisation; telecommunication security; virtual private networks; wireless LAN; IEEE 802.11; VPN; access control; lightweight authentication protocol; lightweight synchronization algorithm; statistical scheme; virtual private network; wired equivalent privacy; wireless networks security; Access control; Access protocols; Authentication; Communication system security; Information security; Privacy; Redundancy; Virtual private networks; Wireless LAN; Wireless networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Global Telecommunications Conference, 2003. GLOBECOM '03. IEEE

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7974-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/GLOCOM.2003.1258465

Filename

1258465