Analysis and improvements over DoS attacks against IEEE 802.11i standard

NSWCTC 2010 - The 2nd International Conference on Networks Security, Wireless Communications and Trusted Computing

Volumn 2, Issue , 2010, Pages 109-113

  Wang, Li ^a   Srinivasan, Balasubramaniam ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

4 way handshake; 802.11i; De authentication; Disassociation; DoS; WLAN

Indexed keywords

4-WAY HANDSHAKE; 802.11I; COMPUTATION COSTS; DE-AUTHENTICATION; DENIAL OF SERVICE ATTACKS; DOS ATTACKS; HANDSHAKE PROTOCOL; HYBRID MECHANISMS; IEEE 802.11S; IEEE802.11I;

AUTHENTICATION; COMPUTER CRIME; LOCAL AREA NETWORKS; SECURITY OF DATA; STANDARDS; TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN);

EID: 77954404663     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NSWCTC.2010.251     Document Type: Conference Paper

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