Performance evaluation of EAP-based authentication for proposed integrated mobile WiMAX and FSO access networks

2011 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, WCNC 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1155-1160

  Gu, Wen ^a   Kartalopoulos, Stamatios V ^a   Verma, Pramode K ^a  

^a University of Oklahoma   (United States)

Author keywords

EAP; EAP TLS; EAP TTLS; FSO; Integrated access network; WiMAX

Indexed keywords

EAP; EAP-TLS; EAP-TTLS; FSO; INTEGRATED ACCESS;

AUTHENTICATION; COMPUTER NETWORK PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; FIBER OPTIC NETWORKS; INTEGRATION; SEEBECK EFFECT; TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; WIMAX;

WIRELESS NETWORKS;

EID: 79959325703     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WCNC.2011.5779294     Document Type: Conference Paper

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