Vulnerabilities exposing IEEE 802.16e networks to DoS attacks: A survey

Proc. 9th ACIS Int. Conf. Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Networking and Parallel/Distributed Computing, SNPD 2008 and 2nd Int. Workshop on Advanced Internet Technology and Applications

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 344-349

  Naseer, Sheraz ^a   Younus, Muhammad ^a   Ahmed, Attiq ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

DoS attacks; IEEE 802.16e security; Multiand broadcast service shared key vulnerability; WiMAX

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BROADCASTING; COMPUTER CRIME; INTERNET; INTEROPERABILITY; NETWORK MANAGEMENT; SECURITY OF DATA; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; TECHNICAL PRESENTATIONS;

BROADCAST OPERATIONS; CLIENT MACHINES; CRYPTOGRAPHIC KEYS; IEEE 802.16E SECURITY; MULTIAND BROADCAST SERVICE SHARED KEY VULNERABILITY; MULTICAST; SECURITY VULNERABILITIES; SOLUTION STRATEGIES; WEAK KEYS; WIMAX;

PUBLIC KEY CRYPTOGRAPHY;

EID: 57749189847     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SNPD.2008.104     Document Type: Conference Paper

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