802.11 Disassociation DoS Attack and Its Solutions: A Survey

Author

Aslam, Baber ; Islam, M. Hasan ; Khan, Shoab A.

Author_Institution

Nat. Univ. of Sci. & Technol. Rawalpindi, Rawalpindi

fYear

2006

fDate

17-20 Sept. 2006

Firstpage

221

Lastpage

226

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.

Keywords

IEEE standards; telecommunication standards; wireless LAN; DoS attack; IEEE 802.11; Wi Fi protected access; denial of service attacks; local area networks; wireless standard; Access control; Access protocols; Authentication; Communication system security; Computer crime; Cryptography; Data security; Microwave integrated circuits; Phase shift keying; Protection; 802.11; Denial of service DoS; Disassociation; Wireless security;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Mobile Computing and Wireless Communication International Conference, 2006. MCWC 2006. Proceedings of the First

Conference_Location

Amman

Print_ISBN

978-9957-486-00-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MCWC.2006.4375225

Filename

4375225