Empirical analysis of virtual carrier sense flooding attacks over wireless local area network

Journal of Computer Science

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 214-220

  Malekzadeh, Mina ^a   Ghani, Abdul Azim Abdul ^a   Desa, Jalil ^a   Subramaniam, Shamala ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY PUTRA MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Control frame attack; DCF flooding; NAV attack; RTS CTS ACK attack; Virtual carrier sense attack; Wireless network DoS attacks

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952313042     PISSN: 15493636     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3844/jcssp.2009.214.220     Document Type: Article

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