An overview of wireless intrusion prevention systems

With the fast development of wireless network, the problems on wireless security have become more and more prominence. And technologies of firewall and intrusion detection cannot solve these problems satisfactorily. However, wireless intrusion prevention systems which can prevent attacks for WLAN excellently have become the research hotspot. In this paper, we firstly indicate the developing history of WIPS, and then summarize the related work on WIPS in academic and engineering application area respectively. Based on these work, we propose a common wireless intrusion prevention framework (CWIPF), and describe some key technologies used in this framework. Finally, we propose some research issues should be focused on in the future.