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A Comparative Study on Security Implementation in EPS/LTE and WLAN/802.11

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Security in the wireless access network gained increasing interest over the last years. Its implementation varies from one access network to another. The current trend in wireless access network is towards implementing mechanisms for mobility management namely handoff process and quality of service control. Consequently, security should be taken into consideration at each handoff process which may occur between different technologies (intertechnology) or within the same (intra-technology). At the same time, security provisioning impact on network performances (e.g. end-to-end delay, throughput) should be controlled. This chapter aims to give a better understanding of security measures and protocols available in two distinct wireless network families, namely the Wireless Wide Area Network (WWAN) and the Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN). WWAN family includes the wide coverage area technologies such as the Long-term Evolution (LTE), also named as Evolved Packet System (EPS). On the other hand, WLAN are characterized by having a small coverage area. It includes the WiFi (802.11) technology. Each time, the chapter highlights the mechanisms employed by access network to ensure the trade-off between secured mobility and application requirements in terms of delay and throughput.

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  1. TELECOM Bretagne, Brest, France

    Siwar Ben Hadj Said & Jean-Marie Bonnin

  2. France Telecom R&D, Paris, France

    Siwar Ben Hadj Said & Karine Guillouard

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Said, S.B.H., Guillouard, K., Bonnin, JM. (2013). A Comparative Study on Security Implementation in EPS/LTE and WLAN/802.11. In: Khan, S., Khan Pathan, AS. (eds) Wireless Networks and Security. Signals and Communication Technology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-36169-2_14

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