A Solution to a Dos Attack in Wireless Networks.

Abstract: Recently, wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) has gained popularity in a variety of application ranging from government agencies to enterprises due to the advantage of low hardware cost, ease of installation, increased mobility, and network configuration flexibility. Unfortunately, the advent of WLAN arises some issue of security due to the wireless inherent broadcast mechanism. Especially, Dos attacks have become a major threat to current WLAN. Beside the existing common Dos attacks to wireless network, WLAN employ IEEE 802. lli standard is vulnerable to a special Dos attacks, which can be easily carried out by an adversary only with little software. In this paper, we present a solution to such attacks against WLAN in details. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]