A study on authentication and access control of wireless access point

Abstract

When a client is accessing a wireless AP, many methodologies which prevent from external attack or internal information leakage using only authorized wireless AP after deciding authorized/unauthorized have proposed. But there are securities and cost problem in server based authentication, and availability problem in client based authentication. In this paper, we use MAC Address to get an authentication from an AP. It searches the NDIS Intermediate Driver from the wireless network card, and then controls the packets after operating the scope of IP and PORT. We have implemented the proposed model, and it showed no more security and cost problem. It also showed that client based authentication availability is very flexible and has high scalability. © 2011 Springer-Verlag.