wireless networks ppt

Wireless NeTWOrKs

by

Ananth RavindranAssistant Professor

UNiT i

MUlTiPle rADiO ACCess

Medium Access Alternatives: Fixed-Assignment for Voice

Oriented Networks Random Access for Data Oriented Networks ,

Handoff and Roaming Support, Security and Privacy

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WIRELESS MEDIUM ACCESS

ALTERNATIVES

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WIRELESS MEDIUM ACCESS

1. Fixed-Assignment Access for Voice-Oriented Networks

a. Frequency Division Multiple Access (FDMA)

b. Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA)

c. Code-Division Multiple Access (CDMA)

2. Random Access for Data-Oriented Networks

a. ALOHA-Based Wireless Random Access Techniques

b. CSMA-Based Wireless Random Access Techniques

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Fixed-Assignment Multiple Access

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• The available spectrum bandwidth for our wireless

communication is limited.

• Multiple access techniques enable multiple signals to

occupy a single communications channel.

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Major Types

• Frequency division multiple access (FDMA)

• Time division multiple access (TDMA)

• Code division multiple access (CDMA)

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Frequency Division Multiple Access

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Frequency Division Multiple Access

• It assigns individual frequency to individual users.

(i.e ) accommodates one user at a time.

• Each user is separated by Guard Bands.

• The complexity of FDMA mobile systems is lower when

compared to TDMA systems

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• A guardband is a narrow frequency band betweenadjacent frequency channels to avoid interferencefrom the adjacent channels

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• The number of channels that can be simultaneouslysupported in a FDMA system is given by

• BT -> total spectrum allocation,

• BGUARD -> the guard band

• BC -> the channel bandwidth

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Key Features

• If an FDMA channel is not in use, then it sits idle and

cannot be used by other users

• The bandwidths of FDMA channels are narrow (30

kHz)

• Intersymbol interference is low

• It needs only a few synchronization bits

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De Merits• FDMA systems are costlier because of the single channel per

carrier design,

• It need to use costly bandpass filters to eliminate spurious

radiation at the base station.

• The FDMA mobile unit uses duplexers since both the

transmitter and receiver operate at the same time. This

results in an increase in the cost of FDMA subscriber units and

base stations.

• FDMA requires tight RF filtering to minimize adjacent channel

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Time Division Multiple Access

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Time division multiple access

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TDMA vs FDMA

TDMA FDMA

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• Time division multiple access (TDMA) systems divide the radio

spectrum into time slots

• Each user occupies a cyclically repeat-ing time slot

• A set of ‘N’ slots form a Frame.

• Each frame is made up of a preamble, an information

message, and tail bits

• TDMA systems transmit data in a buffer-and-burst method

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• TDMA shares a single carrier frequency with several

users, where each user makes use of non-

overlapping time slots

• TDMA uses different time slots for transmission and

reception

• Adaptive equalization is usually necessary in TDMA

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• High synchronization overhead is required in

TDMA systems because of burst transmissions

• Guard Bands are necessary to ensure that

users at the edge of the band do not "bleed

over" into an adjacent radio service.

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Frame Structure

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• The preamble contains the address and

synchronization information that both the

base station and the subscribers use to

identify each other.

• Trial bits specify the start of a data.

• Synchronization bits will intimate the receiver

about the data transfer.

• Guard Bits are used for data isolation.EC2043 WIR

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Efficiency of TDMA

• The efficiency of a TDMA system is a measure

of the percentage of transmitted data that

contains information as opposed to providing

overhead for the access scheme

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whereb0H – no over head bits per framebr - no of overhead bits per bp - no overhead bits per preamble in each slotbg - no equivalent bits in each guard time intervalNr - reference bursts per frame, Nt- traffic bursts per frame

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• The total number of bits per frame, bT, is

bT = TfR

• Tf is the frame duration, and R is the channel bit rate

• Then the frame efficiency is

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• And the no of frames

m - maximum number of TDMA users supported on each radio channel

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Spread spectrum multiple access (SSMA)

• Frequency Hopped Multiple Access (FHMA)

• Direct Sequence Multiple Access (DSMA)

Direct sequence multiple access is also called code division

multiple access (CDMA).

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Frequency Hopped Multiple Access

• The carrier frequencies of the individual users

are varied in a pseudorandom fashion within a

wideband channel

• The digital data is broken into uniform sized

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• Fast Frequency Hopping System -> the rate of

change of the carrier frequency is greater than

the symbol rate

• Slow Frequency Hopping -> the channel

changes at a rate less than or equal to the

symbol rate

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Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA)

• The narrowband message signal is multiplied by a

very large bandwidth signal called the spreading

signal (pseudo-noise code)

• The chip rate of the pseudo-noise code is much

more than message signal.

• Each user has its own pseudorandom codeword.

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Message

PN sequence

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• CDMA uses CO-Channel Cells

• All the users use the same carrier frequency and may

transmit simultaneously without any knowledge of

others.

• The receiver performs a time correlation operation

to detect only the specific desired codeword.

• All other code words appear as noise

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• Multipath fading may be substantially reduced

because the signal is spread over a large spectrum

• Channel data rates are very high in CDMA systems

• CDMA supports Soft handoff MSC can

simultaneously monitor a particular user from two or

more base stations. The MSC may chose the best

version of the signal at any time without switching

frequencies.

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• In CDMA, the power of multiple users at a receiver

determines the noise floor.

• In CDMA, stronger received signal levels raise the

noise floor at the base station demodulators for the

weaker signals, thereby decreasing the probability

that weaker signals will be received. This is called

Near- Far problem.

• To combat the Near- Far problem, power control is

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Random Access for Data-Oriented Networks

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Random Access for Data-Oriented Networks

• In all wireless networks such as cellular telephony or PCSservices all voice-oriented operations use fixed-assignmentchannel access.

• And data related traffic is carried out using Random AccessTechniques.

• Random access methods provide a more flexible and efficientway of managing channel access for communicating shortbursty messages.

• It provides each user station with varying degrees of freedomin gaining access to the network whenever information is tobe sent. EC2043 W

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ALOHA-Based Wireless Random Access Techniques

• The original ALOHA protocol is also called pure ALOHA.

• ALOHA Protocol is developed by University of Hawaii. The

word ALOHA means "hello" in Hawaiian.

• The initial system used ground-based UHF radios to connect

computers on several of the island campuses with the

university's main computer center on Oahu, by use of a

random access protocol which has since been known as the

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Basic Concept • A mobile terminal transmits an information packet when the packet

arrives from the upper layers of the protocol stack.

• A user accesses a channel as soon as a message is ready to be

transmitted.

• Each packet is encoded with an error-detection code.

• After a transmission, the user waits for an acknowledgment on

either the same channel or a separate feedback channel.

• The BS checks the parity of the received packet. If the parity checks

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Collision

• The message packets are transmitted at arbitrary times, so there is

a possibility of collisions between packets.

• After sending a packet the user waits a length of time more than

the round-trip delay for an acknowledgment from the receiver.

• If no acknowledgment is received, the packet is assumed lost in a

collision, and it is transmitted again with a randomly selected delay

to avoid repeated collisions.

• As the number of users increase, a greater delay occurs because the

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Pure ALOHA

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Merits :• The advantage of ALOHA protocol is that it is very

simple, and it does not impose any synchronization

between mobile terminals

De-Merits:• Its has low throughput under heavy load conditions.

• The maximum throughput of the pure ALOHA is 18

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Slotted ALOHA• The maximum throughput of a slotted ALOHA is 36 percent.

• In slotted ALOHA, time is divided into equal time slots of

length greater than the packet duration t.

• The subscribers have synchronized clocks and each user will

be synchronized with the BS clock.

• The user message packet is buffered and transmitted only at

the beginning of a new time slot. This prevents partial

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Application;

• In GSM the initial contact between BS and MS for

voice communication is carried out by slotted

ALOHA.

De-Merit;

• Even though the throughput is higher than pure

ALOHA it is still low for present day wireless

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Reservation ALOHA

• Reservation ALOHA is the combination of slotted ALOHA and

time division multiplexing.

• In this certain packet slots are assigned with priority, and it is

possible for users to reserve slots for the transmission of

packets.

• For high traffic conditions, reservations on request offers

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Packet Reservation Multiple Access (PRMA)

• PRMA is a method for transmitting a variable mixture of voice

packets and data packets.

• This allows each time slot to carry either voice or data, where

voice is given priority.

• PRMA merges characteristics of slotted ALOHA and TDMA

protocols.

• It is used for short-range voice transmission where a small

delay is acceptable.

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• The transmission format in PRMA is organized into frames,

each containing a fixed number of time slots.

• Each slot as named as either "reserved" or "available“

• Only the user terminal that reserved the slot can use a

reserved slot.

• Other terminals not holding a reservation can use an

‘available’ slot.

• Terminals can send two types of information, referred to as

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• Speech packets are always periodic. Data packets can be

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Reservation ;

• A terminal having periodic information to send starts

transmitting in contention for the next available time slot.

• After completion of transmission the base station grants the

sending terminal a reservation for exclusive use of the same

time slot in the next frame.

• This frame is reserved till the terminal completes its

transmission.

• The reservation status is reverted when the terminal sends

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CSMA-Based Wireless Random Access

Techniques

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De-Merits of ALOHA

1. ALOHA protocols do not listen to the channel before

transmission, the users will start transmitting as

soon as the message is ready.

2. Efficiency is reduced by the collision and

retransmission process.

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CSMA- Carrier Sense Multiple Access

• In this each terminal will monitor the status of the channel before

transmitting information.

• If there is another user transmitting on the channel, it is obvious

that a terminal should delay the transmission of the packet.

• If the channel is idle, then the user is allowed to transmit data

packet without any restrictions.

• The CSMA protocol reduces the packet collision significantly

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Parameters in CSMA protocols

1. Detection delay - is a function of the receiver

hardware and is the time required for a terminal to

sense whether or not the channel is idle

2. Propagation delay- is a relative measure of how fast

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• Propagation delay is important, since just after a user begins

sending a packet, another user may be ready to send and may

be sensing the channel at the same time.

• If the transmitting packet has not reached the user who is

poised to send, the latter user will sense an idle channel and

will also send its packet, resulting in a collision between the

two packets.

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Propagation delay (td)

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• tp -> propagation time in seconds,

• Rb -> channel bit rate

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Various strategies of the CSMA

1. NON-PERSISTENT CSMA — In this type of CSMA strategy, afterreceiving a negative acknowledgment the terminal waits arandom time before retrans-mission of the packet.

2. 1-PERSISTENT CSMA — The terminal senses the channel andwaits for transmission until it finds the channel idle. As soonas the channel is idle, the terminal transmits its messagewith probability one.

3. p-PERSISTENT CSMA —When a channel is found to be idle,the packet is transmitted with probability p . It may or maynot be immediate.EC2043 W

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4. CSMA/CD – In this the user monitors the channel for possible

collisions. If two or more terminals start a transmission at the

same time the transmission is immediately aborted in midway.

5. Data sense multiple access (DSMA) - is a special type of CSMA

that is used to serve the hidden terminals. Cellular networks uses

different frequencies for forward and reverse channel. Each MS

may not have the knowledge about other MS operating in that

area. So it may not know when the channel is idle. For this the BS

can announce the availability of the reverse channel through the

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6. Busy tone multiple access (BTMA)- this is a special type of

technique where the system bandwidth is divided into

message channel and busy channel. Whenever a terminal

sends data through message channel it will also transmits a

busy-tone in busy channel. If another terminal senses the

busy channel it will understand that the message channel is

busy and it will also turns its busy tone. This acts as an alarm

for other terminals.

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Handoff

• Process of transferring a moving active user

from one base station to another without

disrupting the call.

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Handoff Strategies

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Ist generation handoff-

• In this almost all the work were carried out by

MSC with the help of Base Station.

• Using the Locator Receiver the MSC will measure

the signal strength of the moving mobile.

• If the level decreases it will perform handoff by

its own.

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MAHO (Mobile Assisted HandOff)

• In this every mobile station measures the received power

from surrounding base stations and continually reports the

results of these measurements to the serving base station.

• When the power received from the base station of a

neighboring cell begins to exceed the power received from

the current base station by a certain level or for a certain

period of time a handoff is initiated.

• Since all the measurements were done by the mobile, the

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• Inter system handoff -occurs if a mobile moves from

one cellular system to a different cellular system

controlled by a different MSC (service provider) or

while roaming

• Guard channel concept – In this some channels are

reserved only for handoff.

• Queuing – If more number of users request handoff the

they will be placed in queue before allotting channels

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Umbrella approach

• Speed of the user is a main factor in deciding a

successful handoff.

• In urban areas the cell size will be very small and high

speed users will cross quickly.

• To perform handoff on these high speed users we

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Umbrella approach

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Cell dragging

• Cell dragging occurs in an urban environment when

there is a line-of-sight (LOS) radio path between the

pedestrian subscriber and the base station.

• Even after the user has traveled well beyond the

designed range of the cell, the received signal at the

base station does not decay rapidly resulting in Cell

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Soft and hard handoff

• Hard handoff- when the user moves to a new cell, he

will be assigned with a new set of channels.

• Soft Handoff- when the user moves to a new cell, the

channel itself will be switched to the new base

station. CDMA uses soft Handoff.

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WIRELESS SECURITY AND

PRIVACY

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• The broadcast nature of wireless communications

renders it very susceptible to malicious interception and

wanted or unintentional interference.

• Analog techniques are extremely easy to tap.

• Digital systems such as TDMA and CDMA are much

harder to tap.

• Wireless security is necessary to prevent the

unauthorized access or damage to computers

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There are two names you need to know in a wireless

network:

• Station (STA) -> is a wireless network client—a desktop

computer, laptop, or PDA

• Access point (AP)-> is the central point (like a hub) that

creates a basic service set to bridge a number of STAs

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Modes of unauthorized access

1. Accidental association2. Malicious association3. Ad-hoc networks4. Non-traditional networks5. Identity theft (MAC spoofing)6. Man-in-the-middle attacks7. Denial of service8. Network injection9. Caffe Latte attack

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1. Accidental association

– Violation of security perimeter of corporate

network unintentionally.

2. Malicious association

– when wireless devices can be actively made by attackers to

connect to a company network through their cracking company

access point (AP).

– These types of laptops are known as “soft APs” and are created

when a cyber criminal runs some software that makes his/her

wireless network card look like a legitimate access point.

– Once access is gained, he/she can steal passwords, launch

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3. Ad-hoc networks

– Ad-hoc networks are defined as peer-to-peer networks

between wireless computers that do not have an access point

in between them. While these types of networks usually have

little protection, encryption methods can be used to provide

security.

4. Non-traditional networks

– Non-traditional networks such as personal

network Bluetooth devices are not safe from cracking and

should be regarded as a security risk. Even barcode readers,

handheld PDAs, and wireless printers and copiers should be

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5. Identity theft (MAC spoofing)

– Identity theft occurs when a cracker is able to listen

in on network traffic and identify the MAC address of

a computer with network privileges.

6. Man-in-the-middle attacks

– In this the hacker will include a soft AP in to a

network. Once this is done, the hacker connects to a

real access point through another wireless card

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7. Denial of service

– A Denial-of-Service attack (DoS) occurs when an

attacker continually bombards a targeted Access

Point or network with bogus requests, premature

successful connection messages, failure messages,

and other commands.

– These cause legitimate users to not be able to get

on the network and may even cause the network

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8. Network injection

– In a network injection attack, a cracker can make use

of access points that are exposed to non-filtered

network traffic.

– The cracker injects bogus networking re-configuration

commands that affect routers, switches, and

intelligent hubs.

– A whole network can be brought down in this manner

and require rebooting or even reprogramming of all

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9. Caffe Latte attack

– The Caffe Latte attack is another way to defeat WEP.

– It is not necessary for the attacker to be in the area of

the network using this exploit.

– By using a process that targets the Windows wireless stack,

it is possible to obtain the WEP key from a remote client

– By sending a flood of encrypted Address Resolution

Protocol (ARP) requests, the assailant takes advantage of

the shared key authentication and the message

modification flaws in WEP.EC2043 WIR

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The Attack Methodology

1. Footprint the wireless network- Locate and understand

your target.

2. Passive attack - Analyze the network traffic or break the

WEP.

3. Authentication and authorization - Determine what

methods are enforced and how they can be circumvented.

4. Active attack - Launch denial of service (DoS) attacks.

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Defense Mechanisms

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• Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP)

• Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA)

• Wi-Fi Protected Access- 2 (WPA-2)

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Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP)

• WEP is a standard network protocol that adds security to

wireless networks at the data link layer.

• WEP utilizes a data encryption scheme called RC4 for

data protection.

• RC4 (also known as ARC4 or ARCFOUR ) is the most

widely used software stream cipher and is used in

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• RC4 generates a pseudorandom stream of bits.

• Standard 64-bit WEP uses a 40 bit key (WEP-40) and

a 24 bit initialization vector .

• 128-bit WEP protocol using a 104-bit key size (WEP-

104) and a 24 bit initialization vector.

• Initialization vector (IV) is a fixed-size input which is

used for randomization of key. The purpose of an IV

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Authentication1. The client sends an authentication request to the

Access Point.

2. The Access Point replies with a clear-text challenge.

3. The client encrypts the challenge-text using the

configured WEP key, and sends it back in another

authentication request.

4. The Access Point decrypts the response. If this matches

the challenge-text the Access Point sends back a

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Dis Advantages

• The same traffic key must never be used twice.

• But a 24-bit IV is not long enough to ensure this on a busy network.

• In August 2001, Scott Fluhrer, Itsik Mantin, and Adi

Shamir published a cryptanalysis of WEP that decodes the way the

RC4 cipher and IV is used in WEP.

• Using a passive attack they were able to recover the RC4key after

eavesdropping on the network.

• A successful key recovery could take as little as one minute

depending on the traffic.

• WEP is replaced by WPA(Wi-Fi Protected Access)EC2043 WIR

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Wi-Fi Protected Access(WPA)

• The Wi-Fi Alliance intended WPA as an

intermediate measure to take the place of

WEP.

• WPA uses Temporal Key Integrity Protocol

(TKIP) to bolster encryption of wireless

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Wi-Fi Protected Access(WPA)

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TKIP

• TKIP encryption replaces WEP's 40-bit or 104-bit

encryption key that must be manually entered on

wireless access points and devices and does not change

• TKIP uses a 128-bit per-packet key, it dynamically

generates a new key for each packet and prevents

collisions

• It has an extended initialization vector (IV) with

sequencing rules, and a re-keying mechanism.EC2043 WIR

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WPA with TKIP provides 3 levels of security

1. TKIP implements a key mixing function that

combines the secret root key with the initialization

vector before passing it to the RC4 initialization.

2. WPA implements a sequence counter to protect

against replay attacks. Packets received out of order

will be rejected by the access point.

3. TKIP implements a 64-bit Message Integrity Check

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Merits and Demerits

• TKIP uses the same underlying mechanism as WEP,and consequently is vulnerable to a number ofsimilar attacks.

• But the message integrity check, per-packet keyhashing, broadcast key rotation, and a sequencecounter prevents many attacks.

• The key mixing function also eliminates the WEP keyrecovery attacks

• Beck-Tews attack has successfully extracted thekeystream EC2043 W

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Ohigashi-Morii attack

• Japanese researchers Toshihiro Ohigashi andMasakatu Morii reported a simpler and fasterimplementation of a similar attack.

• It utilizes a similar attack method, but usesa man-in-the-middle attack

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WPA 2

• WPA2 (Wireless Protected Access 2) replaced the

original WPA technology on all certified Wi-Fi hardware

since 2006.

• WPA2 uses Pre-Shared Key (PSK) instead of TKIP

• WPA2 Pre-Shared Key (PSK) utilizes keys with 256 bits

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There are two versions of WPA2

1. WPA2-Personal- protects unauthorized

network access by utilizing a set-up password

2. WPA2-Enterprise- verifies network users

through a server. WPA2 is backward

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