Droplet: A new denial-of-service attack on low power wireless sensor networks

Proceedings - IEEE 10th International Conference on Mobile Ad-Hoc and Sensor Systems, MASS 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 542-550

  He, Zhitao ^a   Voigt, Thiemo ^b  

^a SWEDISH INSTITUTE OF COMPUTER SCIENCE   (Sweden)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Denial of Service; Low power radios; PHY layer; Wireless sensor networks

Indexed keywords

DENIAL OF SERVICE; DENIAL OF SERVICE ATTACKS; DUTY-CYCLE MACS; FRAME HEADER; HIGH POWER EFFICIENCIES; LOW POWER RADIOS; LOW POWER WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS; PHY LAYER;

MEDIUM ACCESS CONTROL; RADIO BROADCASTING; SENSORS; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

DROPS;

EID: 84893289329     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/MASS.2013.18     Document Type: Conference Paper

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