Denial of service attacks in wireless networks: The case of jammers

IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 245-257

  Pelechrinis, Konstantinos ^a   Iliofotou, Marios ^a   Krishnamurthy, Srikanth V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

anti jamming; jamming; Wireless DoS; wireless security

Indexed keywords

ANTI-JAMMING; DENIAL OF SERVICE; DENIAL OF SERVICE ATTACKS; FUTURE DIRECTIONS; INTERFERENCE SIGNAL; JAMMERS; JAMMING TECHNIQUE; MALICIOUS NODES; RADIO SIGNALS; WIRELESS SECURITY;

JAMMING; SURVEYS; TRANSMISSION CONTROL PROTOCOL; WIRELESS NETWORKS;

COMPUTER CRIME;

EID: 80051801375     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1553877X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/SURV.2011.041110.00022     Document Type: Review

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