An analysis of denial of service attacks (DoS) in the Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) environment

Author

Sharafat, Ahmd R. ; Kosari, Sahar

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Tarbiat Modarres Univ., Tehran, Iran

Volume

3

fYear

2002

fDate

2002

Firstpage

1317

Abstract

The proliferation of Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) enabled devices has made new threats to the security and availability of the whole wireless network a reality. As the number of users and customers on digital mobile networks surpass the number of Internet and wireline telephony users, and with the integration of digital mobile telephony and the Internet, it becomes the more necessary to deal with such threats. In order to understand the vulnerabilities of the WAP environment, we have undertaken an analysis of possible attacks similar to those that have been reported for the Internet. We report the results of our study and propose some remedies to deal with such weaknesses.

Keywords

Internet; access protocols; digital communication; land mobile radio; radiotelephony; security of data; telecommunication network reliability; telecommunication security; DoS attacks; Internet; WAP; Wireless Application Protocol; communication protocols; denial of service attacks; digital mobile networks; digital mobile telephony; networks interconnection; resource allocation attacks; resource destruction attacks; wireless network availability; wireless network security; wireline telephony; Authentication; Computer crime; Design engineering; IP networks; Intelligent networks; Internet telephony; Resource management; Web server; Wireless application protocol; Wireless networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2002. IEEE CCECE 2002. Canadian Conference on

ISSN

0840-7789

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7514-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CCECE.2002.1012941

Filename

1012941