Design and implementation of a lightweight security model to prevent IEEE 802.11 wireless DoS attacks.

• Main Authors: Malekzadeh, Mina, Abdul Ghani, Abdul Azim, Subramaniam, Shamala
• Format: Article
• Language: English; English
• Published: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2011
• Online Access: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/18463/1/105675.pdf; http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/18463/

The protection offered by IEEE 802.11 security protocols such as WEP, WPA, and WPA2 does not govern wireless control frames. The control frames are transmitted in clear-text form, and there is no way to verify their validity by the recipients. The flaw of control frames can be exploited by attackers...