Enhancing the management of wireless clients on infrastructure based WLAN’s: Case of UNDP somalia

Abstract

Network Managements entail managing faults, configurations, accounting, performance and security. This is done to guarantee reliability, availability and confidentially key issues in computer and network systems. Most of this features can and have always been realized on the wired LAN because of the capability to configure the features on specific physical ports. Wireless LAN’s pose the greatest challenges in enforcing these features because they do not have many physical ports like the wired LAN and most clients connect through the same port on an access point. Users are easily managed in systems where user devices are internal to the system e.g. registered authenticated system users. Network administrator’s often have issues in managing guest and other mobile users who only connect once in a long time to the network or managing users who come in with new or different devices day in day out and require connecting to the network. Such foreign devices pose great management issues to network administrators because they cannot be accounted for easily yet they consume much of the networked resources. This study is aimed at establishing a solution to manage such mobile guest wireless devices on the corporate wireless LANS so as to realize a similar secure, reliable and well optimized environment with wireless clients on wireless networks in order to realize a well-managed network.