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http://dx.doi.org/10.13089/JKIISC.2005.15.4.29

Lightweight Packet Authentication for Access Control in IEEE 802.11  

Lee, Keun-Soon (Dept. of Computer Science, Yonsei Univ.)
Kim, Hyo-Jin (Dept. of Computer Science, Yonsei Univ.)
Song, Joo-Seok (Dept. of Computer Science, Yonsei Univ.)
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Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology / v.15, no.4, 2005 , pp. 29-38 More about this Journal
Abstract
Because IEEE 802.11 has several security vulnerabilities, IEEE 802.11i was proposed and accepted. But IEEE 802.11i has much overhead for most of users for the web surfing. Besides not only node the authentication but also the packet authentication is needed to communicate. Although IEEE 802.11i uses TKIP(Temporal Key integrity Protocol) and CCMP(CTR with CBC-MAC Protocol), they have a lot of overheads. In this paper, Lightweight Packet Authentication(LIPA) is proposed. LIPA has less overhead and short delay so that it can be affordable for simple web-surfing which does not need stronger security. After comparing performances of LIPA with those of TKIP and CCMP, LIPA is more efficient than other schemes for transmitting packets.
Keywords
access control; IEEE 802.11; LIPA; packet authentication; WLAN;
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