Realizing an 802.11-based covert timing channel using off-the-shelf wireless cards

Proceedings - IEEE Global Communications Conference, GLOBECOM

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 722-728

  Radhakrishnan, Sakthi V ^a   Uluagac, A Selcuk ^a   Beyah, Raheem ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

802.11 Covert Channel; Covert Channels; Covert DCF; Covert Timing Channel; Network Steganography

Indexed keywords

CARRIER COMMUNICATION; CARRIER SENSE MULTIPLE ACCESS; IEEE STANDARDS; TIMING CIRCUITS;

802.11 COVERT CHANNEL; 802.11 NETWORKS; COVERT CHANNELS; COVERT DISTRIBUTED COORDINATION FUNCTION; COVERT TIMING CHANNELS; DISTRIBUTED COORDINATION FUNCTION; MALICIOUS ENTITY; NETWORK STEGANOGRAPHY; WIRELESS CARDS;

WIRELESS NETWORKS;

EID: 84904103952     PISSN: 23340983     EISSN: 25766813     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/GLOCOM.2013.6831158     Document Type: Conference Paper

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