• DocumentCode
    449536
  • Title

    Vulnerabilities and security enhancements for the IEEE 802.11 WLANs

  • Author

    Xiao, Yang ; Bandela, Chaitanya ; Pan, Yi

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Comput. Sci., Memphis Univ., TN, USA
  • Volume
    3
  • fYear
    2005
  • fDate
    28 Nov.-2 Dec. 2005
  • Abstract
    This paper first surveys security vulnerabilities of IEEE 802.11 WLANs. Then, two approaches to enhance security are proposed to overcome some known vulnerabilities and thus to provide better data confidentiality and authentication. Finally, simulation methodology is presented, and simulate results are provided. Our studies show that the proposed enhancements provide better data confidentiality with some degree of computing cost as the tradeoff.
  • Keywords
    data privacy; security of data; telecommunication security; wireless LAN; IEEE 802.11 WLAN; data authentication; data confidentiality; security enhancements; vulnerabilities; Authentication; Communication system security; Computational modeling; Computer science; Cryptography; Data privacy; Data security; Local area networks; Protection; Wireless LAN;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Global Telecommunications Conference, 2005. GLOBECOM '05. IEEE
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-9414-3
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/GLOCOM.2005.1577931
  • Filename
    1577931