RAP: protecting commodity wi-fi networks from rogue access points

Authors:
Liran Ma;Amin Y. Teymorian;Xiuzhen Cheng;Min Song
Affiliations:
The George Washington University, Washington, DC;The George Washington University, Washington, DC;The George Washington University, Washington, DC;Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA
Venue:
The Fourth International Conference on Heterogeneous Networking for Quality, Reliability, Security and Robustness & Workshops
Year:
2007

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Abstract

We first give a comprehensive taxonomy of rouge access points (APs), which includes a new class of rouge APs never addressed in the literature before. Then, we propose an efficient rogue AP protection system termed as RAP for commodity Wi-Fi networks. In RAP, novel techniques are introduced to detect rouge APs and to improve network resilience. Our system has the following nice properties: i) it requires neither specialized hardware nor modification to existing standards; ii) the proposed mechanism can be integrated with an AP in a plugin manner; iii) it provides a cost-effective security enhancement to Wi-Fi networks by incorporating free but mature software tools; iv) it can protect the network from adversaries capable of using customized equipment and violating the IEEE 802.11 standard.