A Novel (Re)Association Control Scheme for Inter-AP Security Transition in Mobile Wireless LAN

Byungho CHUNG
Sangha KIM

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications   Vol.E89-B    No.5    pp.1613-1619
Publication Date: 2006/05/01
Online ISSN: 1745-1345
DOI: 10.1093/ietcom/e89-b.5.1613
Print ISSN: 0916-8516
Type of Manuscript: PAPER
Category: Terrestrial Radio Communications
Keyword: 
mobile WLAN,  inter-AP security transition,  fake attack,  

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Summary: 
Recently with the high expectation of voice over WLAN service, to support fast inter-AP security transition in WLAN Access Point (AP) is one of the most actively investigating issues. It is also very important problem to minimize inter-AP security transition (IAPST) latency, while maintaining constantly the secure association from old AP when a station transits to new AP. With this background, this paper presents a novel association control mechanism whose objective pursues to minimize IAPST latency time and to take countermeasures against attacks of rogue transition station. Experiment shows that the proposed scheme outperforms the legacy AP over 70% with regard to the transition latency.