Attacks on physical-layer identification

WiSec'10 - Proceedings of the 3rd ACM Conference on Wireless Network Security

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 89-98

  Danev, Boris ^a   Luecken, Heinrich ^a   Capkun, Srdjan ^a   El Defrawy, Karim ^b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Attacks; Identification; Physical layer; Wireless security

Indexed keywords

FINGERPRINTING TECHNIQUES; IDENTIFICATION TECHNIQUES; IMPERSONATION ATTACK; MESSAGE AUTHENTICATION; PHYSICAL LAYERS; RADIO FREQUENCIES; RADIO TRANSCEIVERS; RECORDING PROCESS; TRANSIENT-BASED TECHNIQUES; WIRELESS CHANNEL; WIRELESS DEVICES; WIRELESS SECURITY;

ACCESS CONTROL; CLONING; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; NETWORK SECURITY; RADIO BROADCASTING; RADIO TRANSMISSION;

WIRELESS NETWORKS;

EID: 77952407534     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1741866.1741882     Document Type: Conference Paper

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