COMPARING WIRELESS LAN STANDARDS AND A MODEL PROPOSAL FOR UNIVERSITY WIRELESS NETWORK SECURITY WITH 802.1X

Abstract: With the increasing use of wireless devices, information sharing, use of systems and many different applications were taken into account over Wireless Network. One of the biggest problems of Wireless network is that it might lead to many security gaps. When Universities, naturally considering academic staff, managers and student population the number of users in Wireless Network are many, therefore Universities are firms that need to be careful about security due to the different applications. In this research, the Security Methods and Standards were generally discussed, after comparing them, secure wireless network architecture has been designed for Universities and the design has been applied in Fatih Sultan Mehmet University.

Keywords: wireless networks, network security, 802.1x, campus network architecture.