Pre Wi-Fi Testing

Customer: A Tier1 Semiconductor Company

Requirement:

The requirement was to undertake the following Pre Wi-Fi Certification Testing:

• Wi-Fi 802.11 Basic Functional Testing
  • Installation and Setup
  • Infrastructure Mode
  • Ad-Hoc Mode
• WiFi Conformance Testing for both Infrastructure and Ad-Hoc modes
• Wi-Fi Interoperability testing for both Infrastructure and Ad-Hoc modes
• Performance and Throughput Testing
• Security Testing including WPA and Negative test cases

Basic Functionality Testing

• Installation of Driver to OS/RTOS
• Driver loading and unloading
• Plug/Un-plug
• PDA compatibility test
• Driver disable/enable wireless (turn off/on wireless)
• Switching modes – Infrastructure / Ad-Hoc
• Authentication and Association
• Basic Networking Functionality
• IP fragmentation tests
• CLI commands testing

Infrastructure Mode - Features Tested 

• WEP Off, Open Key and Shared Key Authentication
• WEP 64-bit, Open Key and Shared Key Authentication
• WPA Interoperability Performance Test
• Infrastructure Network Power Save Mode Test
• Re-Association and Roaming Test
• Infrastructure Network Stress and Traffic Test
• Infrastructure Network Channels/Adjacent Channel Performance Test
• Infrastructure Network Performance/Range Test

Ad-Hoc  Mode Features – Tested

• Ad-Hoc Network Creator/Joiner Test
• Ad-Hoc Network Active/Passive Scan & Site Survey Test
• Ad-Hoc Network Encryption Test ( 64/128 bit)
• Ad-Hoc Network 802.11b Mode Interoperability Test with Major 802.11b SD cards
• Ad-Hoc Network 802.11b Mode Interoperability Test with Major 802.11 CB, CF cards
• Ad-Hoc Network Stress and Traffic Test
• Ad-Hoc Network Beacon Distribution Test

Throughput & Performance Testing

Network Adjacent Channels, Performance and Throughput tests have been performed in RF Shield and
Open rooms using tools like Chariot, Airopeek, Ethereal, Shell Script, Perl etc.

Security Testing

Performed testing of Wireless Station Authentication and Association with the Access Point having
802.1x support with Pre-shared keys and Dynamic keys using the RADIUS Server and a WPA
Supplicant.

AUTHENTICATION MECHANISMS TESTED

• Open System Authentication
• Shared Key Authentication
• WEP
• WPA / WPA2
• EAP-MD5
• EAP-TLS
• EAP-CISCO (LEAP)

Encryption Algorithm

• CCMP
• WRAP
• AEC

Test Infrastructure

• Wireless Test Lab
• RF Shield Room
• AP’s and Station Cards
• Equipped with wireless testing tools (Sniffer, Chariot) for effective testing

Technology & Tools
Target Platform: x86, Xscale
RTOS/OS: Linux, WINCE, Windows
Tools: Sniffer, Chariot and Scripting Tools