A study on the security, the performance and the penetration of Wi-Fi networks in a Greek urban area

Authors:
Savvas Mousionis;Alex Vakaloudis;Constantinos Hilas
Affiliations:
Department of Informatics and Communications, Technological Educational Institute of Serres, Serres, Greece;Department of Informatics and Communications, Technological Educational Institute of Serres, Serres, Greece;Department of Informatics and Communications, Technological Educational Institute of Serres, Serres, Greece
Venue:
WISTP'11 Proceedings of the 5th IFIP WG 11.2 international conference on Information security theory and practice: security and privacy of mobile devices in wireless communication
Year:
2011

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Abstract

This paper presents a study on the expansion of urbanWi-Fi networks and the degree of users' awareness about their characteristics. It involves an experiment contacted at the area of Serres, a Greek city of around 70,000 inhabitants. The findings revealed that although the number of Wi-Fi networks is quite high, their owners are unaware of their technical settings. As a result many networks remain either unlocked or with WEP encryption while many adjacent networks use the same channel thus reducing their performance.