SECURITY IN WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS

@inproceedings{Pervaiz2006SECURITYIW,
  title={SECURITY IN WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS},
  author={Mohammad O. Pervaiz and Mihaela Cardei and Jie Wu},
  year={2006}
}
Over the last years, wireless local area networks (WLANs) have experienced a tremendous growth, becoming an integral part of enterprises, homes and other businesses. One of the most important issues in the development of WLANs is providing a secure communication. Because of the broadcast nature of the wireless communication, it becomes easy for an attacker to intercept the signal or to disturb the normal operation of the network. Although the early versions of WLANs were not designed for… 
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