On security vulnerabilities of null data frames in IEEE 802.11 based WLANs

Proceedings - The 28th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, ICDCS 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 28-35

  Gu, Wenjun ^a   Yang, Zhimin ^a   Que, Can ^a   Xuan, Dong ^b   Jia, Weijia ^b  

^a Ohio State University   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; SECURITY OF DATA; WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN);

802.11 WLANS; BROADER IMPACTS; CHANNEL SCANNING; DATA FRAMES; FRAME FORMAT; IEEE 802.11S; SALIENT FEATURES; SECURITY VULNERABILITIES;

IEEE STANDARDS;

EID: 51849160751     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICDCS.2008.17     Document Type: Conference Paper

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