Exploring security improvement of wireless networks with directional antennas

Hong Ning Dai, Dong Li, Raymond Chi Wing Wong

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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 languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 36th Annual IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks, LCN 2011
EditorsTom Pfeifer, Anura Jayasumana, Nils Aschenbruck
PublisherIEEE
Pages191-194
Number of pages4
ISBN (Electronic)9781612849287
ISBN (Print)9781612849263
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Oct 2011
EventThe 36th Annual IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks, LCN 2011 - Hilton Hotel, Bonn, Germany
Duration: 4 Oct 20117 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)

Publication series

NameProceedings of the Conference on Local Computer Networks, LCN
PublisherIEEE
ISSN (Print)0742-1303

Conference

ConferenceThe 36th Annual IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks, LCN 2011
Country/TerritoryGermany
CityBonn
Period4/10/117/10/11
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Scopus Subject Areas

  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Hardware and Architecture

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