M. Hossein Ahmadzadegan

Security-centric Investigation of Wimax M. Hossein Ahmadzadegan

WiMAX is without any doubt a wireless standard which offers high speed broadband connections and covers long distances with an acceptable reliability. It is now one of the most common broadband technologies mainly deployed in developing countries. When it comes to broadband wireless access, security becomes one of the chief factors that basically affects the performance of the WiMAX network. WiMAX, like other technologies does have many flaws, security breaches and vulnerabilities. This technology can become even more widespread if its security would be warrantied and meticulous measures would be taken care of. This book is aimed to carry out a security centric analysis and performance investigation of WiMAX. In this process the architecture of WiMAX, security of the standard, its security elements together with the respective attacks and threats will be discussed in details. This book offers a novel precise insight and analysis of WiMAX security.