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Record W2122446043 · doi:10.1109/ccece.2004.1345023

Security issues of the IEEE 802.11b wireless LAN

2004· article· en· W2122446043 on OpenAlex

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affAt least one author lists a Canadian institution in the pinned OpenAlex snapshot.

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicIPv6, Mobility, Handover, Networks, Security
Canadian institutionsCarleton University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsComputer scienceComputer networkWireless LAN controllerInter-Access Point ProtocolWireless Transport Layer SecurityWi-Fi arrayWireless networkComputer securityWireless securityWi-FiWireless WANMunicipal wireless networkFixed wirelessWirelessTelecommunications

Abstract

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The IEEE 802.11 wireless LAN standard was established in 1989 and was originally intended to seek a wireless equivalent to Ethernet. In this way, it has developed successions of robust enterprise grade solutions that in many cases meet or even exceed the demands of the enterprise network. IEEE 802.11 wireless LAN networks are designed to provide wireless connectivity in a range of roughly 300 feet from the base. The lead application being shared over the wireless LAN is data. Provisions are being made to accommodate audio, video, and other forms of streaming multimedia. Wireless security is a major demand in the secure data transferring services. Security challenges such as identity theft, international credit card fraud, communications fraud and corporate fraud are some of the main barriers preventing wireless technologies from growing and over taking the wired technology position. The 802.11b wireless LAN includes a protocol called wired equivalent privacy (WEP) which is meant to protect the wireless network. We have been able to find some major flaws in this protocol which lead the whole system to be insecure and thus unreliable. For example, the cryptographic technique used in the WEP protocol, which is a fundamental tool to achieve the above goals, is rather primitive and can be broken fairly simply. The purpose of this paper is to explore the security vulnerabilities of the 802.11b wireless LAN and to present solutions for some of its major vulnerabilities.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.739
Threshold uncertainty score0.558

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.006
GPT teacher head0.208
Teacher spread0.202 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it