Research on security of wireless local area network based on IEEE 802.11

As the increasing development of Wireless Local Area Network(WLAN), the security issues become more and more noticeable. First the security requirement of WLAN is introduced based on the characteristic of WLAN channel, and then the principle of Wired Equivalent Privacy(WEP) protocol of IEEE802.11 WLAN standard is presented, and the existing security weakness of WEP protocol and corresponding attacks are also (analyzed), finally some improved...