Security and efficiency of an open wireless campus network

Having a WLAN (Wireless Local Area Network) is now so commonplace in academic campuses, that it is more or less taken for granted by its users. Hence, it is increasingly important to understand usage and usage-changes in a technological world that is rapidly changing. In this paper, we want to take a look at the general usage, efficiency and security of a campus network as a whole, by using passive network monitoring software. Over a span of 5 weekdays we detected 956 unique devices at the UCSB Davidson Library, by monitoring for two hours daily.