Wireless Network Security & Energy Harvesting

This assignment delves into the realms of wireless networking, encompassing Wi-Max encryption protocols, WPAN security challenges, and the promising field of energy harvesting in wireless sensor networks (WSNs). It analyzes two research papers on energy harvesting in WSNs and presents a Telestra case study showcasing potential benefits from adopting cellular networks. The assignment also includes a detailed report on Wi-Fi security measures and vulnerabilities.

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Table of Contents
Introduction....................................................................................................................1
1. Encryption methods of Wi-Max.................................................................................1
2. Wireless Personal Area Network and its security challenges....................................2
3. Review of two research papers..................................................................................2
4. Telestra presentation file............................................................................................3
Conclusion......................................................................................................................9
References....................................................................................................................10

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Introduction
The report will highlight Wi-Max encryption methods, WPAN security challenges,
two journal articles’ reviews and Telestra getting benefits from the wireless cellular network.
1. Encryption methods of Wi-Max
Wi-Max has three encryption methods and they are AES, EAP and PKMv2.
PKMv2: This protocol has the varied properties and it contains the mutual
authentication. This mutual authentication is carried out by integrating the message integrity
algorithms, EAP-based protocols and RSA-based protocols, and key management protocols
(Sharma & Singh, 2017). The protocol is utilized for the authentic exchange of the
cryptographic keys for broadcast traffic and multicast traffic.
AES: Advanced Encryption Standard is based on Rijndael algorithm. This encryption
method is agile and can be configured with ease. It also requires less memory compared to all
other encryption standards like PKMv2 or 3DES. Thus all of them prefer this key because of
all these advantageous features. The algorithm works on the 128-bit block size of data and
this block size of data are arranged in a 4x4 array of bytes and this arrangement is called
state. This standard is used to encipher over the air traffic.
EAP: EAP protocol is used to connect a computer to the Internet, the authentication
procedure that is used and supported by EAP are public key encryption authentication, token
cards, smart cards and one-time passwords. The user requests for connection to the wireless
network via an access point (Sharma & Singh, 2017). The access point asks for ID from the
user and transfers data to the authorized users’ server.

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2. Wireless Personal Area Network and its security challenges
The security challenges faced are-
DDoS attacks: DDoS attacks sabotage one's computer and take the ownership of the
computer system thus steal the sensitive information of the computer this kind of attack is
very common and this attack generally occurs in insecure wireless personal area network
(Achary & Lalseta, 2017). The customers may be unaware that their system has been hacked,
when they try to enter their system they will find out that their database and the system have
been hacked. This can also lead to the shutdown of one's server computer as well.
Malware attack: The intruders attack one’s computer system via insecure network via
virus attacks. The virus installed into one’s system can steal one’s data, can alter one’s data
and can even destroy one’s files resides in the customer data as well.
3. Review of two research papers
First paper review: Wireless Sensor Networks is gaining prominence due to the
enhancement of Internet of Things as well as Cyber-Physical Systems. In this paper, the
effective harvesting system to use the power of WSN technology for WSN environment has
been showcased. Various energy predictions models have been prescribed in this paper that
has the capability to embellish the energy harvested in Wireless Sensor Network (Shaikh &
Zeadally, 2016). This paper has also highlighted the issues that need to be detected to
embellish the harvesting system for the WSN environment so that the system can be utilized
in profitable and effective manner.
Second paper review: This paper has highlighted the energy that is harvesting the
wireless communications. All the aspects of the wireless networks like network issues,
energy harvesting nodes, transmission scheduling policies, resource allocation and harvesting

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nodes elaborately (Ulukus et al., 2015). Various models associated with harvesting nodes
have been detailed with respect to various network scales.
4. Telestra presentation file
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Conclusion
Wi-Max encryption procedures have been well illustrated in this report. The security
challenges associated with WPAN technologies have been showcased too. The two articles
have been reviewed as well. A presentation has been well demonstrated stated the benefits
that Telestra can acquire from the wireless cellular network.

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References
Achary, R., & Lalseta, J. S. (2017). Internet of Things: Essential Technology, Application
Domain, Privacy and Security Challenges. International Journal of Computer
Applications, 157(6).
Shaikh, F. K., & Zeadally, S. (2016). Energy harvesting in wireless sensor networks: A
comprehensive review. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 55, 1041-1054.
Sharma, S., & Singh, H. (2017). An Effectual Approach for Security and Integrity against
Wicked Node Attacks in Wi-Max Network Environment. Indian Journal of Science
and Technology, 10(27).
Ulukus, S., Yener, A., Erkip, E., Simeone, O., Zorzi, M., Grover, P., & Huang, K. (2015).
Energy harvesting wireless communications: A review of recent advances. IEEE
Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, 33(3), 360-381.