PISCATAWAY, N.J.-IEEE said it has approved work to begin on an amendment to the 802.11 standard for wireless local area networks.
The project involves a WLAN standard amendment for WLAN devices to support protection of management frames, said the group. IEEE P802.11w will provide enhancements to the 802.11 Medium Access Control layer to make available mechanisms that enable data integrity, data origin authenticity, replay protection and data confidentiality for selected IEEE 802.11 management frames, said IEEE.
The group is focused on security of 802.11 management frames, including action management frames and deauthentication and disassociation frames.
