A Survey on Wireless Local Area Network Security and Its Weakness

Autor: Seyed Mohammad Razeghi, Saleh Rafiee, Reza Shahmoradi, Babak Ravandi
Rok vydání: 2011
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DOI: 10.1115/1.859919.paper97
Popis: Wireless networks have been around for many years. satellite TV, remotecontrol services, radar, alarm systems and weather radios are collected to our everyday life. Nowadays wireless networks are playing increasingly important role in business and personal life. Wireless LANs are suitable for companies because there are no needs wired cables and fixed location. However, the wireless LANs are always in danger more than wired ones because the signals are broadcasted all around. In this paper, we describe the architecture of WLAN, security and its weakness. In addition, some solutions for security weakness are listed in this paper.
Databáze: OpenAIRE