Security Issues in Integrated EPON and Next-Generation WLAN Networks

Abstract

In this paper, we propose a security policy by improving the extensible authentication protocol (EAP)-IKEv2 (Internet key exchange version-2) for key exchange together with advanced encryption standard in counter mode (AES-CTR) for encryption. This approach mitigate the involved security issues like mutual authentication and data confidentiality in emerging Fiber-Wireless (FiWi) networks based on integrated EPON and WLAN networks.