Résumé:
Morocco is an important regional ICT player
that offers interesting investment opportunities to many
national and international companies. It is important for
these companies to have a good understanding of network
performance and security in Morocco. Unfortunately, however,
most prior work on network performance and security is
interested in countries other than Morocco.
In this paper, we perform a field study of WIFI networks
in Rabat, the capital of Morocco, using wardriving. Our study
covers about 10,000 WIFI networks in residential and administrative neighborhoods in Rabat. We find that 77% networks
use WPA or WPA2, indicating that WIFI security in Morocco
is comparable to WIFI security in developed countries. We
also find a balanced use of channels 1, 6, and 11 indicating
that network operators are aware of high interferences that can
occur on channel 6 and therefore act to minimize interferences.
Overall, our results indicate that WiFi situation in the Rabat
neighborhoods examined is very encouraging.
