802.11 Disassociation DoS Attack and Its Solutions: A Survey
Authors
Dr. Baber Aslam, National University of Sciences and Technology, , Dr. Muhammad H. Islam, Center for Advanced Research in Engineering, , Dr. Shoab Khan, National University of Sciences and Technology, ,
Abstract
Wireless local area networks provide the connectivity at low cost with greater flexibility and mobility. IEEE 802.11 is the defacto wireless standard. It was designed to provide security however it failed to do so. As a result amendments/enhancements were made to overcome the flaws by first introducing Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) and then IEEE 802.11i. But both these enhancements failed to achieve the desired objectives especially availability. Unauthenticated management and control frames provide no protection against identity theft and are main cause of Denial of Service (DoS) attacks. Spoofed disassociation messages can successfully be used to launch DoS attacks. In this paper we have explained the DoS attack and carried out a survey / analysis of various solutions for this attack.
Track
WCN: Wireless Communication Networks
Conference
1st International Conference on Mobile Computing and Wireless Communications (MIC-MCWC 2006), 17-20 September 2006, Amman, Jordan
Pages
1-6
Topics
Network Security and Privacy Wireless Access Techniques
