Robust detection of MAC layer denial-of-service attacks in CSMA/CA wireless networks

IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 347-358

  Toledo, Alberto Lopez ^a,b   Wang, Xiaodong ^a,c  

^a IEEE

^b TELEFONICA RESEARCH   (Spain)

^c Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Carrier sensing multiple access with collision avoidance (CSMA CA); Denial of service (DoS) attack; IEEE 802.11; Kolmogorov smirnov (KS); Media access control (MAC); Sequential detection

Indexed keywords

ACCESS CONTROL; CARRIER SENSE MULTIPLE ACCESS; CELLULAR NEURAL NETWORKS; CELLULAR TELEPHONE SYSTEMS; COMPUTER CRIME; LAWS AND LEGISLATION; PORT TERMINALS; STANDARDS; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS; WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN);

CARRIER-SENSING MULTIPLE-ACCESS WITH COLLISION AVOIDANCE (CSMA/CA); CELLULAR NETWORKS; CSMA/CA; DENIAL-OF-SERVICE (DOS) ATTACK; DENIAL-OF-SERVICE ATTACKS; DETECTION ACCURACY; DETECTION LATENCY; IEEE 802.11; IEEE 802.11 DISTRIBUTED COORDINATION FUNCTION; KOLMOGOROV-SMIRNOV; KOLMOGOROV-SMIRNOV (KS); MAC LAYERS; MEDIA-ACCESS CONTROL; MEDIA-ACCESS CONTROL (MAC); MULTIPLE ACCESSING; NETWORK OPERATIONS; NETWORK OPERATORS; NON-PARAMETRIC DETECTION; ROBUST DETECTION; SEQUENTIAL DETECTION; SIMULATION RESULTS; WIRELESS NETWORKS;

NETWORK PROTOCOLS;

EID: 49549091088     PISSN: 15566013     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIFS.2008.926098     Document Type: Article

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