Physical layer attacks on unlinkability in wireless LANs

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5672 LNCS, Issue , 2009, Pages 108-127

  Bauer, Kevin ^a   McCoy, Damon ^a   Greenstein, Ben ^b   Grunwald, Dirk ^a   Sicker, Douglas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b INTEL CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANONYMOUS COMMUNICATION; INFORMATION LEAKAGE; LINK LAYERS; NETWORK IDENTIFIERS; PHYSICAL LAYERS; SIGNAL STRENGTHS; UNLINKABILITY; WIRELESS LAN; WIRELESS PACKET;

WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN);

EID: 69949156113     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-03168-7_7     Document Type: Conference Paper

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