SOLA: Lightweight Security for Access Control in IEEE 802.11
| Document type: | Journal Articles |
|---|---|
| Article type: | Original article |
| Peer reviewed: | Yes |
| Author(s): | Felix Wu, Henric Johnson, Arne A. Nilsson |
| Title: | SOLA: Lightweight Security for Access Control in IEEE 802.11 |
| Journal: | IT Professional |
| Year: | 2004 |
| Volume: | 6 |
| Issue: | 3 |
| Pagination: | 10-16 |
| ISSN: | 1520-9202 |
| Publisher: | IEEE Computer Society |
| Organization: | Blekinge Institute of Technology |
| Department: | School of Engineering - Dept. of Signal Processing (Sektionen för teknik – avd. för signalbehandling) School of Engineering S- 372 25 Ronneby +46 455 38 50 00 http://www.tek.bth.se/ |
| Language: | English |
| Abstract: | The IEEE 802.11 wireless standard provides little support for secure access control. As a result, access control in IEEE 802.11 on a per packet basis requires a new and robust identity authentication protocol. The SOLA (Statistical One-Bit Lightweight Authentication) protocol is well suited in a wireless constrained environment because this protocol's communication overhead is extremely low: only one bit. Furthermore, SOLA fulfills the requirements of being secure, useful, cheap, and robust. The synchronization algorithm performs very well. SOLA also makes it easy to develop a framework to detect and respond to, for instance, denial-of-service attacks or an adversary who tries to guess the identity authentication bit for successive packets. |
| Subject: | Telecommunications\General Telecommunications\Network Security |
