Performance Study of 802.11w for Preventing DoS Attacks on Wireless Local Area Networks

Wireless Personal Communications

Volumn 95, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 1031-1053

  Liu, Chibiao ^a   Qiu, Jinming ^a  

^a SANMING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

DeauthF; DisassF; DoS attacks; IEEE 802.11w; Queuing model; Traffic shaping

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER CRIME; FLOODS; QUEUEING THEORY; WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN);

802.11W; DEAUTHF; DISASSF; QUEUING MODELS; TRAFFIC-SHAPING;

DENIAL-OF-SERVICE ATTACK;

EID: 84991071149     PISSN: 09296212     EISSN: 1572834X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11277-016-3812-9     Document Type: Article

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