Performance Test of WAP Gateway Over Web Server Using OPNET

Abstract

The Security for the portable devices such as mobile phones,iPad and laptops becoming extremely important day by day.The intermediates such as gateway are the main source for communication through wireless media. In today's era, maintaining the transport level security amongst cellular devices like mobile phones and PDA(Personal Digital Assistant) become the most burning issue.During communications of smart phones with the web server through broadband method pass communication through the gateway known as Wireless Applications Protocol. The main purpose of WAP gateway is to transfer all the protocol used in WAP to the protocols used on the internet server. The WAP proxy server uses marshalling and unmarshalling methodology for the content to reduce the size of the data that has been sent through the wireless link. Further, the communication between the mobile phones and wireless application protocol is secured by using the security protocol called WTLS. The communication between the WAP gateway and web server is secured through the TLS/SSL security protocols. This paper simulates an assessment of wireless and wired networks using OPNET simulation tools. This paper simulated 2 different scenarios comparing wireless mobile client communication using WTLS gateway MD5_RSA encryption and Firewall gateway TLS encryption using MD5_RSA.The investigation results shows how the end to end security takes place between wireless clients to web servers using hybrid security protocol.