New Vulnerabilities to DoS Attacks in 802.11 Networks Tutorial Paper (Gianluigi Me, PhD and Dr. Francesco Ferreri). New vulnerabilities to DoS attacks in 802.11 networksTutorial Paper (Gianluigi Me, PhD and Dr. Francesco Ferreri). A1Francesco Ferreri[1], A2Gianluigi Me [1] f.ferreri@caspur.it The use of 802.11 wireless networks is steadily increasing despite of many studies that report security problems, mainly related to authentication, privacy and confidentiality issues. Besides that, the peculiar features of the wireless medium suggest a greater exposure to Denial of Service (DoS) attacks than wired networks. Since the wireless networks do not have well defined physical boundaries, a malicious station can appear in the range of such a network and launch an attack in order to stop any legitimate communication. The aim of the present work is to investigate how this kind of attacks can be carried out. In particular, we identified some simple attack schemes that might lead to a DoS effect and then observed the reaction of various types of infrastructured networks to these attacks.
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