Fast Initial Authentication and Secure Wireless Local Area Network Protocol

Speed of the connection establishment and communication in wireless local area networks is a very important aspect to be considered along with achieving faster authentication of the communicating nodes to make the overall system efficient. While few standards developed by IEEE were easy to implement and had minimum hardware and software requirements but did not provide much desired security, others provided a secure environment to carry out the data transmission but took ample time to provide initial authentication services. In this paper a new method, FALAN-AKA, i.e. fast wireless local area network authentication and key agreement has been proposed which provides minimal delay in the initial authentication and provides the security of data by encrypting it.