Trace Analysis of a Wireless University Network with Authentication Export

@inproceedings{4480111, abstract = {In this paper we have analyzed traces gathered from 36 buildings part of 3 different universities, libraries, laboratories and public places. The availability of login information allowed us to quantify the MAC address sharing. In addition, we have described a procedure applicable to both WPA/802.1X and captive portal authentication logs, which in conjunction with association traces can be used to uniquely identify users with increased confidence. We found out that a non-negligible percentage - 36\% - of the 400 thousand associations we studied are without corresponding authentications. We also found that 32\% of the users have used the secured network and have caused 45\% of the associations.}, author = {Pelov, A. and David, P. and Noel, T.}, citeulike-article-id = {4894866}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/WIOPT.2007.4480111}, doi = {10.1109/WIOPT.2007.4480111}, journal = {Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc and Wireless Networks and Workshops, 2007. WiOpt 2007. 5th International Symposium on}, keywords = {access-protocols, address, analysis, authentication, captive, captive-portal-authentication-logs, educational-computing, information, login, login-information, logs, mac, message-authentication, network, portal, secured, secured-network, sharing, telecommunication-security, trace, trace-analysis, university, wireless, wireless-lanmac-address-sharing, wireless-university-network, wpa8021x}, month = {April}, pages = {1--6}, posted-at = {2009-06-18 18:35:10}, priority = {0}, title = {Trace Analysis of a Wireless University Network with Authentication}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/WIOPT.2007.4480111}, year = {2007} }

TY - CONF ID - 4480111 L3 - citeulike-article-id:4894866 N2 - In this paper we have analyzed traces gathered from 36 buildings part of 3 different universities, libraries, laboratories and public places. The availability of login information allowed us to quantify the MAC address sharing. In addition, we have described a procedure applicable to both WPA/802.1X and captive portal authentication logs, which in conjunction with association traces can be used to uniquely identify users with increased confidence. We found out that a non-negligible percentage - 36% - of the 400 thousand associations we studied are without corresponding authentications. We also found that 32% of the users have used the secured network and have caused 45% of the associations. JF - Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc and Wireless Networks and Workshops, 2007. WiOpt 2007. 5th International Symposium on EP - 6 TI - Trace Analysis of a Wireless University Network with Authentication SP - 1 KW - access-protocols KW - address KW - analysis KW - authentication KW - captive KW - captive-portal-authentication-logs KW - educational-computing KW - information KW - login KW - login-information KW - logs KW - mac KW - message-authentication KW - network KW - portal KW - secured KW - secured-network KW - sharing KW - telecommunication-security KW - trace KW - trace-analysis KW - university KW - wireless KW - wireless-lanmac-address-sharing KW - wireless-university-network KW - wpa8021x AU - Pelov, A AU - David, P AU - Noel, T PY - 2007/April// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/WIOPT.2007.4480111 ER -