EAP-based Authentication with EAP Method Selection Mechanism

Wireless network has grown rapidly in the past few
years due to its advantages over the wired network, such as
mobility, flexibility, convenience, and rapid deployment. But it
also introduces new security issues due to its nature, i.e. it does
not need any physical access. One of the solutions to overcome the
limitation of wireless network security is the IEEE 802.1X
specification, a mechanism for port-based network access control,
which is based on Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP), an
authentication framework that can support multiple
authentication methods. We propose extension to the EAP
framework for authentication method selection purpose, in order
to reduce the number of fail authentication due to unsuitable EAP
method used for the authentication. The selection will be based on
some criteria such as the node resources, previous authentication
and communication recor