Improving wireless privacy with an identifier-free link layer protocol

MobiSys'08 - Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 40-53

  Greenstein, Ben ^a   Kohno, Tadayoshi ^b   McCoy, Damon ^c   Seshan, Srinivasan ^d   Pang, Jeffrey ^c   Wetherall, David ^a,d  

^a INTEL CORPORATION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Anonymity; Privacy; Wireless. 802.11

Indexed keywords

802.11 PROTOCOLS; ANONYMITY; ATHEROS; DATA DELIVERIES; IN PACKETS; LINK LAYER PROTOCOLS; MAC ADDRESSES; PRIVACY; PROTOCOL FIELDS; SET-UPS; SYMMETRIC KEY ENCRYPTIONS; SYMMETRIC KEYS; WIRELESS LINK LAYERS; WIRELESS. 802.11;

COMPUTER NETWORKS; CRYPTOGRAPHY; TABLE LOOKUP; TRANSMISSIONS; VIDEO STREAMING; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

WIRELESS NETWORKS;

EID: 57349141867     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1378600.1378607     Document Type: Conference Paper

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