PHYSICAL LAYER SECURITY METHOD IN WIRELESS LAN AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM USING THE SAME

• US 20150121468A1
• Filed: 09/13/2012
• Published: 04/30/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 05/08/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Gloscom Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Gloscom Co., Ltd., LS Cable Limited (LS Corporation)
• Inventors: Park, Gun Byum, Han, Gwan Hee, Kim, Kyoung Soo
• Application Number:
  US14/399,564
• Publication Number:
  US 20150121468A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 726/4
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/08 Access security
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 48/02 Access restriction performed under specific conditions
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/12 WLAN [Wireless Local Area Networks]

Abstract

A security method in a physical layer and a wireless communication system using the same are provided. A wireless communication Access Point (AP) whose security has been enhanced in the physical layer includes a storage unit that manages channel bandwidth pattern data, a controller for sequentially acquiring channel bandwidth data from the channel bandwidth pattern data, a PLL controller for changing a channel bandwidth based on the acquired channel bandwidth data, and a wireless interface unit for performing wireless communication with a wireless communication terminal using the changed channel bandwidth. The channel bandwidth pattern data is identical to channel bandwidth pattern data stored in the wireless communication terminal, and the wireless communication terminal and the wireless communication AP are synchronized with each other such that the wireless communication terminal and the wireless communication AP perform wireless communication using the same channel bandwidth.

Claims

1. A wireless communication Access Point (AP) whose security has been enhanced in a physical layer, the wireless communication AP comprising:

a storage unit that manages channel bandwidth pattern data;

a controller for sequentially acquiring channel bandwidth data from the channel bandwidth pattern data;

a PLL controller for changing a channel bandwidth based on the acquired channel bandwidth data; and

a wireless interface unit for performing wireless communication with a wireless communication terminal using the changed channel bandwidth,

wherein the channel bandwidth pattern data is identical to channel bandwidth pattern data stored in the wireless communication terminal, and

the wireless communication terminal and the wireless communication AP are synchronized with each other such that the wireless communication terminal and the wireless communication AP perform wireless communication using the same channel bandwidth.

2. The wireless communication AP according to claim 1, wherein the channel bandwidth pattern data is a series of pattern data including one or more channel bandwidth data, each having a unique value or some values.

3. The wireless communication AP according to claim 1, wherein the channel bandwidth pattern data further includes a channel bandwidth change period data that corresponds to the channel bandwidth data.

4. The wireless communication AP according to claim 1, wherein the storage unit includes a pattern table in which a plurality of channel bandwidth pattern data is stored, and

the controller acquires channel bandwidth pattern data, which corresponds to a key value input by a user, from the pattern table based on the input key value.

5. The wireless communication AP according to claim 1, further comprising a user interface that receives at least one of channel bandwidth data or a channel bandwidth change instruction from a user,

wherein the controller changes the channel bandwidth based on the received channel bandwidth data in response to input of the channel bandwidth change instruction.

6. The wireless communication AP according to claim 1, wherein the controller transmits a channel bandwidth change notification signal to the wireless communication terminal through the wireless interface unit and changes the channel bandwidth upon receiving a channel bandwidth change response signal from the wireless communication terminal within a predetermined time in response to the channel bandwidth change notification signal.

7. A wireless communication terminal whose security has been enhanced in a physical layer, the wireless communication terminal comprising:

a storage unit that manages channel bandwidth pattern data;

a controller for sequentially acquiring channel bandwidth data from the channel bandwidth pattern data;

a PLL controller for changing a channel bandwidth based on the acquired channel bandwidth data; and

a wireless interface unit for performing wireless communication with a wireless communication Access Point (AP) using the changed channel bandwidth,

wherein the channel bandwidth pattern data is identical to channel bandwidth pattern data stored in the wireless communication AP, and

the wireless communication AP and the wireless communication terminal are synchronized with each other such that the wireless communication AP and the wireless communication terminal perform wireless communication using the same channel bandwidth.

8. The wireless communication terminal according to claim 7, wherein the channel bandwidth pattern data is a series of pattern data including one or more channel bandwidth data, each having a unique value or some values.

9. The wireless communication terminal according to claim 7, wherein the channel bandwidth pattern data further includes a channel bandwidth change period T1 that corresponds to the value of channel bandwidth data.

10. The wireless communication terminal according to claim 9, wherein the PLL controller receives channel bandwidth data from the controller and changes channel bandwidths at intervals of a channel bandwidth search period T2, and

the controller determines whether or not a channel bandwidth of the wireless communication AP is identical to any of the channel bandwidths changed at intervals of the channel bandwidth search period T2 and achieves synchronization with a changed channel bandwidth identical to the channel bandwidth of the wireless communication AP.

11. The wireless communication terminal according to claim 10, wherein the channel bandwidth search period T2 is set to be smaller than the channel bandwidth change period T1.

12. The wireless communication terminal according to claim 7, wherein the storage unit includes a pattern table in which a plurality of channel bandwidth pattern data is stored, and

the controller acquires channel bandwidth pattern data, which corresponds to a key value input by a user, from the pattern table based on the input key value.

13. The wireless communication terminal according to claim 7, wherein the controller transmits a channel bandwidth change response signal to the wireless communication AP within a predetermined time in response to a channel bandwidth change notification signal received from the wireless communication AP.

14. A wireless communication system whose security has been enhanced in a physical layer, the wireless communication system comprising:

a wireless communication Access Point (AP) that sequentially changes channel bandwidths according to predefined channel bandwidth pattern data; and

a wireless communication terminal that sequentially changes channel bandwidths according to channel bandwidth pattern data identical to the channel bandwidth pattern data of the wireless communication AP and performs wireless communication with the wireless communication AP,

wherein the wireless communication AP and the wireless communication terminal change channel bandwidths based on the channel bandwidth pattern data through PLL control, and

the wireless communication AP and the wireless communication terminal are synchronized with each other such that the wireless communication AP and the wireless communication terminal perform wireless communication using the same channel bandwidth.

15. The wireless communication system according to claim 14, wherein the channel bandwidth pattern data is a series of pattern data including one or more channel bandwidth data, each having a unique value or some values.

16. The wireless communication system according to claim 15, wherein the channel bandwidth pattern data further includes a channel bandwidth change period T1 that corresponds to the value of channel bandwidth data.

17. The wireless communication system according to claim 16, wherein the wireless communication AP sequentially changes channel bandwidths at intervals of the channel bandwidth change period T1, and

the wireless communication terminal sequentially changes channel bandwidths based on the channel bandwidth pattern data at intervals of a channel bandwidth search period T2, searches for a channel bandwidth that matches a channel bandwidth of the wireless communication AP, and changes a channel bandwidth of the wireless communication terminal to the matching channel bandwidth.

18. The wireless communication system according to claim 17, wherein the channel bandwidth search period T2 is set to be smaller than the channel bandwidth change period T1.

19. The wireless communication system according to claim 14, wherein each of the wireless communication AP and the wireless communication terminal manages a pattern table in which a plurality of channel bandwidth pattern data is stored, and

the wireless communication AP or the wireless communication terminal acquires channel bandwidth pattern data that corresponds to a key value input by a user based on the input key value.

20. The wireless communication system according to claim 14, wherein the wireless communication AP transmits a channel bandwidth change notification signal to the wireless communication terminal,

the wireless communication terminal transmits a channel bandwidth change response signal to the wireless communication AP within a predetermined time in response to the channel bandwidth change notification signal, and

the wireless communication AP changes a channel bandwidth of the wireless communication AP upon receiving the channel bandwidth change response signal from the wireless communication terminal within a predetermined time.

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