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@article{189579,
        author = {Vidhan Gambhire and Sushant Ramchandra Gade and Aniket Gupta and Sandhya Kaprawan},
        title = {Wireless Wi-Fi Access Point Security: An Analysis of WPA, WPA2, WPS, and WPA3.},
        journal = {International Journal of Innovative Research in Technology},
        year = {2025},
        volume = {12},
        number = {7},
        pages = {7667-7676},
        issn = {2349-6002},
        url = {https://ijirt.org/article?manuscript=189579},
        abstract = {Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs) are the pillars of both household and business networking, breaking barriers in wireless connectivity, but rather they still are susceptible to attacks than ever. Recent security protocols have introduced enhancements such as improved encryption and authentication mechanisms, yet they are inadequate solutions to the availability-oriented attacks such as deauthentication floods, denial-of-service (DoS), and distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. On another side, the paper contains an organized comparison of WPA, WPS, and WPA3, including the areas in which they have improved and the persistent problems in actual use.
The OpenWRT-based router-level security framework that the current study suggests is a tool to close the identified gaps. This framework enables the router to actively monitor and mitigate malicious traffic. The proposed way is based on real-time traffic observation, anomaly detection according to traffic patterns, and dynamic firewall rules enforcement to deny access to malicious entities at the router itself. Both theoretical explanation and practical experiment show that a normal Wi-Fi router can be an active-security hardware only if it has certain security features, therefore, the network's resilience is better. The computations indicate that security on the application protocol level is able to stand it well only if complementary measures of router level are taken into account.},
        keywords = {},
        month = {December},
        }