Design and Implementation of IEEE 802.11i MAC Layer 


Vol. 34,  No. 8, pp. 640-647, Aug.  2009


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  Abstract

IEEE 802.11i is an amendment to the original IEEE 802.11/b,a,g standard specifying security mechanism by stipulating RSNA for tighter security. The RSNA uses TKIP(Temporal Key Integrity Protocol) and CCMP(Counter with CBC-MAC Protocol) instead of old-fashioned WEP(Wired Equivalent Privacy) for data encryption. This paper describes a design of a communication security engine for IEEE 802.11i MAC layer. The design includes WEP and TKIP modules based on the RC4 encryption algorithm, and CCMP module based on the AES encryption algorism. The WEP module suffices for compatibility with the IEEE 802.11 b,a,g MAC layer. The CCMP module has about 816.7Mbps throughput at 134㎒, hence it satisfies maximum 600Mbps data rate described in the IEEE 802.11n specifications. We propose a pipelined AES-CCMP cipher core architecture, which has lower hardware cost than existing AES cores, because CBC mode and CTR mode operate at the same time.

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[IEEE Style]

C. Hong and Y. Jeong, "Design and Implementation of IEEE 802.11i MAC Layer," The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences, vol. 34, no. 8, pp. 640-647, 2009. DOI: .

[ACM Style]

Chang-Ki Hong and Yong-Jin Jeong. 2009. Design and Implementation of IEEE 802.11i MAC Layer. The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences, 34, 8, (2009), 640-647. DOI: .

[KICS Style]

Chang-Ki Hong and Yong-Jin Jeong, "Design and Implementation of IEEE 802.11i MAC Layer," The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences, vol. 34, no. 8, pp. 640-647, 8. 2009.