Empirical studies and queuing modeling of denial of service attacks against 802.11 WLANs

2010 IEEE International Symposium on "A World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks", WoWMoM 2010 - Digital Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Liu, Chibiao ^a   Yu, James ^a   Brewster, Gregory ^a  

^a DEPAUL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

AssRF; AuthRF; DoS; Queuing model; WLAN

Indexed keywords

802.11 WLANS; ANALYTICAL RESULTS; ASSRF; AUTHRF; DATA INTEGRITY; DENIAL OF SERVICE ATTACKS; DOS ATTACKS; EMPIRICAL DATA; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; PERFORMANCE DEGRADATION; QUEUING MODELS; RETRANSMISSIONS; ROUND ROBIN; SECURITY ATTACKS; SIMULATION MODEL; WIRELESS LAN; WLAN; WLAN SECURITY;

AUTHENTICATION; COMPUTER CRIME; COMPUTER SIMULATION; QUEUEING NETWORKS; QUEUEING THEORY; TRANSMISSION CONTROL PROTOCOL; WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN);

SECURITY OF DATA;

EID: 77955856007     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WOWMOM.2010.5534920     Document Type: Conference Paper

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