Providing Tunable Security Services: An IEEE 802.11i Example

Stefan Lindskog; Anna  Brunstrom; Katalin  Toth; Zoltan  Faigl

1st International ICST Workshop on Enterprise Network Security

Research Article

Providing Tunable Security Services: An IEEE 802.11i Example

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    author={Stefan Lindskog  and  Anna  Brunstrom and Katalin  Toth and Zoltan  Faigl },
    title={Providing Tunable Security Services: An IEEE 802.11i Example},
    proceedings={1st International ICST Workshop on Enterprise Network Security},
    publisher={IEEE},
    proceedings_a={WENS},
    year={2007},
    month={5},
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    doi={10.1109/SECCOMW.2006.359583}
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Stefan Lindskog
Anna Brunstrom
Katalin Toth
Zoltan Faigl
Year: 2007
Providing Tunable Security Services: An IEEE 802.11i Example
WENS
IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/SECCOMW.2006.359583

Stefan Lindskog ¹^,*, Anna Brunstrom^,*, Katalin Toth²^,*, Zoltan Faigl ²^,*

1: Dept. of Computer Science, Karlstad University, Sweden
2: Dept. of Telecommunications, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary

*Contact email: Stefan.Lindskog@kau.se, Anna.Brunstrom@kau.se, ktoth@mcl.hu, szlaj@mcl.hu

Abstract

The basic idea of QoS is to provide mechanisms that can offer different service levels, which are expressed through well-defined parameters that are specified at run-time on the basis of need. Bit rate, throughput, delay, jitter, and packet loss rate are all examples of common QoS parameters suggested for packet networks. These parameters are all aimed to express (and guarantee) a certain service level with respect to reliability and/or performance. In this paper, we investigate how security can be treated as yet another QoS parameter through the use of tunable security services. The main idea with this work is to let users specify a trade-off between security and performance through the choice of available security configuration(s). The performance metric used is latency. The concept is illustrated using the IEEE 802.11i wireless local area networking standard

Published: 2007-05-15
Publisher: IEEE

: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/SECCOMW.2006.359583