SOLA: A One-bit Identity Authentication Protocol for Access Control in IEEE 802.11
| Document type: | Conference Papers |
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| Peer reviewed: | Yes |
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| Author(s): | Henric Johnson, Arne A. Nilsson, Judy Fu, Felix Wu, Albert Chen, He Huang |
| Title: | SOLA: A One-bit Identity Authentication Protocol for Access Control in IEEE 802.11 |
| Conference name: | GLOBECOM'02 - IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference |
| Year: | 2002 |
| Pagination: | 768-772 |
| ISBN: | 0 7803 7632 3 |
| Publisher: | IEEE |
| City: | Taipei |
| ISI number: | 000182118500153 |
| Organization: | Blekinge Institute of Technology |
| Department: | Department of Telecommunications and Signal Processing (Institutionen för telekommunikation och signalbehandling) Department of Telecommunications and Signal Processing S-372 25 Ronneby +46 455 38 50 00 |
| Authors e-mail: | henric.johnson@bth.se, arne.nilsson@bth.se, wu@cs.ucdavis.edu |
| Language: | English |
| Abstract: | Given the wide deployment of IPSec/VPN (Virtual Private Networks) technology, there might be a redundancy in security protection in some configurations. Various commercial companies have replaced 802.11 security with IPSec/VPN to protect the wireless LAN (Local Area Network). How to do it in an efficient and lightweight way is a challenging research problem. This paper introduces a new lightweight identity authentication protocol, SOLA (Statistical One-bit Lightweight Authentication), for access control well suited for IEEE 802.11 networks with IP connections. This protocol prevents unauthorized access on a per packet basis. Since SOLA only adds one identity bit to each packet it will have a low impact on the network bandwidth and power consumption. The performance and efficiency of the SOLA protocol together with IEEE 802.11 is analyzed and evaluated via simulation. |
| Subject: | Telecommunications\General Telecommunications\Network Security |
| Keywords: | Telecommunication networks, Wireless telecommunication systems, Local area networks, Network protocols, Bandwidth, Synchronization, Algorithms, Computer simulation, Virtual private networks (VPN) |
