1. May. 2009
Project: IEEE P Working Group for Wireless Personal Area Networks (WPANs)
Submission Title: [Add the Authentication to Enhance the Security on MAC layer]
Date Submitted: [1st May, 2009]
Source: [Pei Liu, X.D Zhang, Liang Li, Z.F Zhao, Zhuang Zhao] Company [ Hisilicon, Huawei, Vinno, Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences ]
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Purpose: [Discussion]
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2. May. 2009
Motivation
Security is important in some simple networking applications and scenarios, especially the WPAN as the infrastructure technology.
Except the frame encryption and message integrity, add the authentication option may help users to build one simple network with the completed security procedure.
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3. Missing Authentication for Association
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Absence of identify to authenticate the device which requires access to the network in current association process
This seriously threatens the security of the simple application network
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4. May. 2009
Suggest to Add the
Provide a (option) flexible scheme to permit the identification and authentication of the device before the current association process
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5. May. 2009
Solution
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6. Modification for (Option) Authentication
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The authentication primitives is added, including request, indication, response and confirm primitive.
The authentication command, including request and response command, would be defined.
The format of the beacon frame should be modified to support the broadcast for authentication information.
(All of these are described in the individual document)
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7. Conclusion The authentication is recommended as one option operation.
May. 2009
The authentication is recommended as one option operation.
The authentication may support user to setup the simple network with the complete security scheme.
The option authentication is compatible with the IEEE E standard, and has been realized in the China-WPAN standard text.
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