Toward Authentication Mechanisms for Wi-Fi Mesh Networks
| dc.contributor.advisor | Tucker, William D. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Saay, Mohammad Salim | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2016-10-04T15:14:40Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-10-30T14:00:55Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2016-10-04T15:14:40Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2024-10-30T14:00:55Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2011 | |
| dc.description | >Magister Scientiae - MSc | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | Wi-Fi authentication mechanisms include central authentication, dynamic and distributed authentication and some encryption methods. Most of the existing authentication methods were designed for single-hop networks, as opposed to multihop Wi-Fi mesh networks. This research endeavors to characterize and compare existing Wi-Fi authentication mechanisms to find the best secure connection mechanism associated with Wi-Fi mesh network fragmentation and distributed authentication. The methodology is experimental and empirical, based on actual network testing. This thesis characterizes five different types of Wrt54gl firmware, three types of Wi-Fi routing protocols, and besides the eight Wi-Fi mesh network authentication protocols related to this research, it also characterizes and compares 14 existing authentication protocols. Most existing authentication protocols are not applicable to Wi-Fi mesh networks since they are based on Layer 2 of the OSI model and are not designed for Wi-Fi mesh networks. We propose using TincVPN which provides distributed authentication, fragmentation, and can provide secure connections for backbone Wi-Fi mesh networks. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10566/16981 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | University of the Western Cape | en_US |
| dc.rights.holder | University of the Western Cape | en_US |
| dc.subject | Wi-Fi mesh networks | en_US |
| dc.subject | Wireless fidelity (Wi-Fi) | en_US |
| dc.subject | TincVPN | en_US |
| dc.title | Toward Authentication Mechanisms for Wi-Fi Mesh Networks | en_US |