The modeling and comparison of wireless network denial of service attacks

  • Authors:
  • Martin Eian;Stig F. Mjølsnes

  • Affiliations:
  • Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway;Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway

  • Venue:
  • MobiHeld '11 Proceedings of the 3rd ACM SOSP Workshop on Networking, Systems, and Applications on Mobile Handhelds
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

Mobile handhelds with wireless access are used in numerous safety critical applications. The wireless network protocols in use are vulnerable to a wide array of denial of service attacks. We propose a formal method for modeling semantic denial of service attacks against wireless network protocols. We then use our proposed model to find a new deadlock vulnerability in IEEE 802.11. The history of published denial of service attacks against wireless protocols indicates that formal methods can contribute to the construction of robust protocols.