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IEEE 802.11 Wireless LAN Security Overview

Overview Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs) are cost effective and desirable gateways to mobile computing. They allow computers to be mobile, cable less and communicate with speeds close to the speeds of wired LANs. These features came with expensive price to pay in areas of security of the network. This paper identifies and summarizes these security concerns and their solutions. Broadly, security concerns in the WLAN world are classified into physical and logical. The paper overviews both physical and logical WLANs security problems followed by a review of the main technologies used to overcome them. It addresses logical security attacks like man-in-the-middle attack and Denial of Service attacks as well as physical security attacks like rouge APs.

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Publisher: Sultan Qaboos University
File Format: PDF
Date Published: Jan 12, 2008
Format: White Papers
Topics: Wi-Fi (802.11), Wireless LAN, Local Area Networks (LAN)

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