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Title

DoS attacks and defense mechanisms in wireless networks

Author(s)

Mohammed, L. A.;  Issac, B.

Abstract

Wireless Networks is one of the fastest growing technologies. Here the users only need to have a mobile device with a wireless network adapter that negotiates with an Access Point or Base Station. Once authenticated and associated, the user can freely move around within the coverage area of the Access Point without losing data or network connection. On the negative side, these networks tend to have fuzzy boundaries, making it easy for an intruder to capture these transmission signals and also send massive volume of illegitimate traffic and utilize system resources in a way that renders the system inoperable thus denying access to authorized users. This paper is two fold in its description. Firstly, it describes some of the major vulnerabilities associated with wireless networks. Secondly, it demonstrates different methods of achieving denial of service (DoS) attacks as it applies to wireless networks and discusses and proposes different defense mechanisms so as to minimize the attacks.

Publication type

Conference paper

Research centre

Swinburne University of Technology. Sarawak School of Information Technology and Multimedia

Source

Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Mobile Technology, Application and Systems, Guangzhou, China, 15-17 November 2005

Publication year

2005

Publisher

IEEE

ISBN

9810545738

Publisher URL

http://dx.doi.org/10.1049/cp:20051493

Copyright

Copyright © 2005 IEEE.