Abstract / Excerpt:

A Wireless local area network or WLAN has two major components to its security problem. These are the privacy of the transmitted data and the protection against intrusion. There are several security problems of Wi-Fi. Examples of these are: easy access, rogue or unauthorized wireless devices, unauthorized use of service, service and performance constraints, MAC spoofing and session hijacking, traffic analysis and eavesdropping, and higher level attacks. There have been measures that have been made to address these problems, and this led to the creation of many technologies that offer to provide security means to unsecured networks such as wireless LANs or Wi-Fi. However, these technologies are often limited to one security problem. Those that provide overall network security only provide an adequate amount of security. This thesis will create a hybrid security mechanism based from existing security mechanisms that can answer to the security problems of Wi-Fi, especially the problem on unauthorized access.

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Source Institution	Ateneo de Davao University
Unit	Computer Studies
Authors	Clemencio, Eileen Josephine G., Dacua, Leah Lynn F., Quiñones, Bryan Echart S.
Page Count	15
Place of Publication	Davao City
Original Publication Date	March 1, 2006
Tags	Hybrid Security Mechanism, WLAN, Wireless Local Area Networks

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