MOJO: A distributed physical anomaly detection system for 802.11 WLANs

MobiSys 2006 - Fourth International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications and Services

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 191-204

  Sheth, Anmol ^a   Doerr, Christian ^a   Grunwald, Dirk ^a   Han, Richard ^a   Sicker, Douglas ^a  

^a University of Colorado at Boulder   (United States)

Author keywords

Anomaly detection; Self healing; Wireless networks

Indexed keywords

ACCESS POINTS; ANOMALY DETECTION; SELF HEALING; WIRELESS NETWORKS;

ALGORITHMS; DEGRADATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; TELECOMMUNICATION LINKS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

LOCAL AREA NETWORKS;

EID: 33748965525     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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