Denial of Service Attacks in Wireless Networks

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Denial of Service Attacks in WirelessNetworks

BUSINESS NEED FOR SECURITY

Denial of Service Attacks in WirelessNetworks

ByMallikarjun Hangargi

Graduate StudentMaster of Science in Information Assurance

Northeastern University

Table of Contents
I. Introduction……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………1
II. Jamming (intentional interference) & unintentional interference at the Physical layer….2
III. Intentional DoS at the Media Access Control (MAC) layer like Masquerading attacks and
Resource exhaustion attack……………………………………………………………………………………………7
A. Lack of management and control frame protection………………………………………………....7
i. Resource Exhaustion attack………………………………………………………………………………….8
ii. De-authentication Flooding attack……………………………………………………………………..10
iii. Disassociation Flooding attack……………………………………………………………………………12
IV. Conclusion……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………14
V. Reference…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….15

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