Using power hopping to counter MAC spoof attacks in WLAN

Vijayakrishnan Nagarajan; Vetri Arasan; Dijiang Huang

doi:10.1109/CCNC.2010.5421588

Using power hopping to counter MAC spoof attacks in WLAN

Vijayakrishnan Nagarajan, Vetri Arasan, Dijiang Huang

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Abstract

IEEE 802.11-based Wireless LANs (WLANs) are deployed in public places, universities, offices and shops. The main reason for the popularity is convenience of internetworking without wires. The increase in WLANs also resulted in increase of security threats. One of these threats is spoofing MAC address. Some WLANs use MAC filtering to allow stations with registered MAC addresses to use the network. The attacker has many tools like AirJack, WireShark to capture the packets in WLAN and find authorized MAC address. The attacker masquerades as an authorized station and can launch denial of service attack. This paper presents a power hopping technique which can be used by Access Points (AP) to discern the authorized packets from the masquerading packets and thus deny the attacker from using the system.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	2010 7th IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference, CCNC 2010
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/CCNC.2010.5421588
State	Published - Apr 29 2010
Event	2010 7th IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference, CCNC 2010 - Las Vegas, NV, United States Duration: Jan 9 2010 → Jan 12 2010

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Other	2010 7th IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference, CCNC 2010
Country/Territory	United States
City	Las Vegas, NV
Period	1/9/10 → 1/12/10

Keywords

MAC spoofing
Power hopping
Wireless LAN

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Computer Networks and Communications
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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Using power hopping to counter MAC spoof attacks in WLAN. / Nagarajan, Vijayakrishnan; Arasan, Vetri; Huang, Dijiang.
2010 7th IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference, CCNC 2010. 2010. 5421588 (2010 7th IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference, CCNC 2010).

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Nagarajan, V, Arasan, V & Huang, D 2010, Using power hopping to counter MAC spoof attacks in WLAN. in 2010 7th IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference, CCNC 2010., 5421588, 2010 7th IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference, CCNC 2010, 2010 7th IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference, CCNC 2010, Las Vegas, NV, United States, 1/9/10. https://doi.org/10.1109/CCNC.2010.5421588

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