A SDR-based verification platform for 802.11 PHY layer security authentication

The WiFi security authentication mechanism combined with the PHY layer information has become a hot spot of WiFi security research. The PHY layer contains rich information such as wireless channel, device location, and signal quality. High performance WiFi verification that supports PHY layer progra...

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Published inWorld wide web (Bussum) Vol. 23; no. 2; pp. 1011 - 1034
Main Authors Li, Xiaoguang, Liu, Jun, Ding, Boyan, Li, Zhiwei, Wu, Haoyang, Wang, Tao
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published New York Springer US 01.03.2020
Springer Nature B.V
Subjects
Computer Science
Database Management
Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet)
Operating Systems
Signal quality
Special Issue on Security and Privacy in Network Computing
Wireless communications
Software defined radio
FPGA
PHY layer
WiFi security
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Summary:The WiFi security authentication mechanism combined with the PHY layer information has become a hot spot of WiFi security research. The PHY layer contains rich information such as wireless channel, device location, and signal quality. High performance WiFi verification that supports PHY layer programming has become an indispensable tool for WiFi security research. This paper designs and implements a verification platform TickSEC that supports the research of WiFi security authentication at the PHY layer. It supports real-time acquisition of PHY layer information, and offers the programmability within the PHY layer. We also give a case study of WiFi device identification using PHY layer information. Experimental results show that TickSEC can meet the needs of PHY layer WiFi authentication verification.
ISSN:1386-145X
1573-1413
DOI:10.1007/s11280-018-0654-2