The Security Systems in the Wireless Home Networks

  • Kim Su-Jin (Arizona State University, Department of Computer Science and Engineering) ;
  • Bae Myung-Soo (Arizona State University, Department of Computer Science and Engineering) ;
  • Cho Sae-Hong (Hansung University, Department of Multimedia Engineering)
  • Published : 2006.06.01

Abstract

In the near future, the wireless home networks will connect several devices at home. Due to the broadcast nature of a wireless network, anyone can hear and capture communication. Thus, we need to protect our network from attacks outside the house. In this paper, we propose and implement a security system that provides different levels of the security services to heterogenous home devices. To reduce the communication cost and workload of the server, home devices send the encrypted messages directly instead of sending through the sever. We implement our security system on laptops using JAVA and our security system achieves the better performance with the large number of devices and messages in a network. In order to prove that our security system is secure against various attacks, we analyze the security of our security system using attack trees.

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