Exploring security improvement of wireless networks with directional antennas

Hong Ning Dai; Dong Li; Raymond Chi Wing Wong

doi:10.1109/LCN.2011.6115185

Exploring security improvement of wireless networks with directional antennas

Hong Ning Dai, Dong Li, Raymond Chi Wing Wong

Department of Computer Science

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Abstract

There are a number of studies on using directional antennas in wireless networks. Many of them concentrate on analyzing the theoretical capacity improvement by using directional antennas. Other studies focus on designing proper Medium Access Control (MAC) protocols to improve the practical network throughput. There are few works on the security improvement using directional antennas. In this paper, we explore the benefits of directional antennas in security improvements on both single-hop and multi-hop wireless networks. In particular, we found that using directional antennas in wireless networks can significantly reduce the eavesdropping probabilities of both single-hop transmissions as well as multi-hop transmissions and consequently improve the network security.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 36th Annual IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks, LCN 2011
Editors	Tom Pfeifer, Anura Jayasumana, Nils Aschenbruck
Publisher	IEEE
Pages	191-194
Number of pages	4
ISBN (Electronic)	9781612849287
ISBN (Print)	9781612849263
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/LCN.2011.6115185
Publication status	Published - Oct 2011
Event	The 36th Annual IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks, LCN 2011 - Hilton Hotel, Bonn, Germany Duration: 4 Oct 2011 → 7 Oct 2011 https://www.ieeelcn.org/prior/LCN36/index.html (Link to conference website) https://www.ieeelcn.org/prior/LCN36/lcn36program_files/index.html (Link to conference programme)

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Name	Proceedings of the Conference on Local Computer Networks, LCN
Publisher	IEEE
ISSN (Print)	0742-1303

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Conference	The 36th Annual IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks, LCN 2011
Country/Territory	Germany
City	Bonn
Period	4/10/11 → 7/10/11
Internet address	https://www.ieeelcn.org/prior/LCN36/index.html (Link to conference website) https://www.ieeelcn.org/prior/LCN36/lcn36program_files/index.html (Link to conference programme)

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Hardware and Architecture

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Dai, H. N., Li, D., & Wong, R. C. W. (2011). Exploring security improvement of wireless networks with directional antennas. In T. Pfeifer, A. Jayasumana, & N. Aschenbruck (Eds.), Proceedings of the 36th Annual IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks, LCN 2011 (pp. 191-194). (Proceedings of the Conference on Local Computer Networks, LCN). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/LCN.2011.6115185

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Dai, HN, Li, D & Wong, RCW 2011, Exploring security improvement of wireless networks with directional antennas. in T Pfeifer, A Jayasumana & N Aschenbruck (eds), Proceedings of the 36th Annual IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks, LCN 2011. Proceedings of the Conference on Local Computer Networks, LCN, IEEE, pp. 191-194, The 36th Annual IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks, LCN 2011, Bonn, Germany, 4/10/11. https://doi.org/10.1109/LCN.2011.6115185

Exploring security improvement of wireless networks with directional antennas. / Dai, Hong Ning; Li, Dong; Wong, Raymond Chi Wing.
Proceedings of the 36th Annual IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks, LCN 2011. ed. / Tom Pfeifer; Anura Jayasumana; Nils Aschenbruck. IEEE, 2011. p. 191-194 (Proceedings of the Conference on Local Computer Networks, LCN).

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