Résumé:
This paper investigates the impact of
security on the performance of WLAN. More specifically, it
analyzes the impact of applying encryption used by the wellknown security protocol Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) on
the throughput over an Infrastructure WLAN, IEEE
802.11g.
This paper also addresses the different issues related to the
security protocols currently used in WLAN IEEE 802.11g
and demonstrates how these issues affect the final results of
the experiments conducted. The main result is that the
security adds moderate degradation on the throughput that
may affect some applications over infrastructure WLANs.
