Research Article
RAP: Protecting Commodity Wi-Fi Networks from Rogue Access Points
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1145/1577222.1577252, author={Liran Ma and Amin Y. Teymorian and Xiuzhen Cheng and Min Song}, title={RAP: Protecting Commodity Wi-Fi Networks from Rogue Access Points}, proceedings={4th International ICST Conference on Heterogeneous Networking for Quality, Reliability, Security and Robustness}, publisher={ACM}, proceedings_a={QSHINE}, year={2007}, month={8}, keywords={}, doi={10.1145/1577222.1577252} }- Liran Ma
Amin Y. Teymorian
Xiuzhen Cheng
Min Song
Year: 2007
RAP: Protecting Commodity Wi-Fi Networks from Rogue Access Points
QSHINE
ACM
DOI: 10.1145/1577222.1577252
Abstract
We first give a comprehensive taxonomy of rouge access points (APs), which includes a new class of rouge APs never addressed in the literature before. Then, we propose an efficient rogue AP protection system termed as RAP for commodity Wi-Fi networks. In RAP, novel techniques are introduced to detect rouge APs and to improve network resilience. Our system has the following nice properties: i) it requires neither specialized hardware nor modification to existing standards; ii) the proposed mechanism can be integrated with an AP in a plugin manner; iii) it provides a costeffective security enhancement toWi-Fi networks by incorporating free but mature software tools; iv) it can protect the network from adversaries capable of using customized equipment and violating the IEEE 802.11 standard.
