Wireless LANs

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Semester: SS 2014 (Summer term)

Lecture name

 Wireless LANs

Lecture ID:

 353.029

Lecture type:

 KV

Hours/Week:

1

Lecturer(s):

 DI Christian Praher

Max. number of participants:

35

Registration:

 Computeranmeldung (Online)

Timetable:

 Block

Lecture dates:
12.03.  18:00 - 20:30, S3 048
13.03.  18:00 - 20:30, S3 048
19.03.  18:00 - 20:30, S3 048
20.03.  18:00 - 20:30, S3 048

Network lab dates:
28.03.   15:00 - 19:00, Labor S3 019, Laborgruppe A
29.03.   09:00 - 13:00, Labor S3 019, Laborgruppe B

Exam:
03.04.   18:00 - 18:45, HS4

Further informations on the lecture dates you will get in KUSSS.
 

Location:

  

Lecture contents:

 Scheduled contents:
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Introduction
- Physical basics of wireless data communication
- Motivation, Protocol prerequisites

Overview of IEEE 802.11 Wireless LAN
- 802.11 Frame Format
- Media Access Control (CSMA/CA)
- Comparison to 802.3 Ethernet
- Standards 802.11 b/g/n
- Wi-Fi Alliance

Topologies of Wireless Networks
- ad-hoc network
- infrastructure-based wireless networks
  > Access Point
  > Connecting WLAN and LAN

Security in WLANs
- Security risks of WLANs
- IInstrusion mechanisms
  > Vulnerabilities of WLANs?
     * War-Driving
     * MAC-Spoofing
     * ...
- Availability, anonymity, authentification, authorization, trust and integrity in WLANs
- Encryption
   > Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP)
   > Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA)
   > WPA2 PSK (IEEE 802.11i)
- WPA2 Enterprise
   > 802.1X
   > Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP)
   > RADIUS

[Optional:look-out further wireless networks]
- Wireless Body Area Networks (WBAN) / Personal Area Networks (WPAN)
   > Infrarot (IrDA)
   > Bluetooth
   > Zigbee

- Wireless Metropolitan Area Networks (WMAN)
   > WiMAX (IEEE 802.16)

- Cellular Networks
   > GSM (GPRS, EDGE)
   > UMTS (HSDPA, HSUPA)

 

Lecture mode:

Die Lehrveranstaltung wird in englischer Sprache abgehalten!
The lecture will be held in English!

 The course consists of four theoretical lectures plus a practical lab lecture of 4 hours.
Attendance of the theoretical lectures is voluntarily, the presence at one of the two offered practical lab lectures is however obligatory in order to pass the course.
Two identical practical lab lectures will be offered of which only one has to be attended.

There will be a one hour written exam at the end of the course.

Criteria for Evaluation:

 Written exam

Literature:

 

Additional information:

 

Further inquiries:

 DI Christian Praher

 

    
letzte Änderung: 2014-02-24