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Contribution to Book
Security in Wireless Metropolitan Area Networks
Wireless Network Security: Theories and Applications (2013)
  • Lei Chen, Georgia Southern University
  • Narasimha Shashidhar, Sam Houston State University
  • Shengli Yuan, University of Houston-Downtown
  • Ming Yang, Southern Polytechnic State University
Abstract
Wireless Metropolitan Area Networks (WMANs) provide wireless communications at acceptable bandwidth over much larger geographical areas compared to Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs). Also known as Wireless Local Loop (WLL), WMANs are based on the IEEE 802.16 standards with commercial name Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access (WiMAX). With its global market growing eighty-five percent in 2010 to 1.7 billion U.S. dollars, WiMAX is becoming a major competitor among the prevailing wireless communications technologies. While improved IEEE 802.16 standards and amendments were published and adopted in almost every year of the past decade, existing standards still contain a number of security vulnerabilities inherent from deprecated versions. This chapter starts with an introduction to and overview of Metropolitan Area Networks (MANs), WMANs, WiMAX and IEEE 802.16 standards, then discusses the technical details of WiMAX and IEEE 802.16 security aspects such as confidentiality, integrity, key generation and management, as well as security vulnerabilities, treats, and countermeasures.
Keywords
  • Mobile station,
  • Advance encryption standard,
  • Extensible authentication protocol,
  • Data encryption standard,
  • Security association
Publication Date
2013
Editor
Lei Chen, Jiahuang Ji, and Zizhong Zhang
Publisher
Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
ISBN
978-3-642-36511-9
DOI
10.1007/978-3-642-36511-9_4
Citation Information
Lei Chen, Narasimha Shashidhar, Shengli Yuan and Ming Yang. "Security in Wireless Metropolitan Area Networks" Wireless Network Security: Theories and Applications (2013) p. 59 - 75
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/lei-chen/43/