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Today, wireless LANs are widely deployed in various places such as corporate office conference rooms, industrial warehouses, Internet-ready classrooms, etc. However, new concerns have been raised regarding security. Currently, both virtual private network (VPN) and WEP are used together as a strong authentication mechanism. In this paper a new synchronization protocol for authentication is proposed which allows simple authentication, minimal power consumption at the mobile station, and high utilization of authentication stream. This is achieved by using one bit per a frame authentication, while main authentication process including synchronization is handled by access points. Computer simulation reveals that the proposed scheme significantly improves the authentication efficiency in terms of the number of authenticated frames and authentication speed compared with earlier protocol employing a similar authentication approach.
This work was supported in part by 21C Frontier Ubiquitous Computing and Networking, Korea Research Foundation Grant(KRF – 2003 – 041 – D20421) and the Brain Korea 21 Project in 2003. Corresponding author: Hee Yong Youn.
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Jo, H.S., Youn, H.Y. (2004). A New Synchronization Protocol for Authentication in Wireless LAN Environment. In: Laganá, A., Gavrilova, M.L., Kumar, V., Mun, Y., Tan, C.J.K., Gervasi, O. (eds) Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2004. ICCSA 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3045. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-24767-8_106
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