802.11 de-authentication attack detection using genetic programming

  • Authors:
  • Patrick LaRoche;A. Nur Zincir-Heywood

  • Affiliations:
  • Faculty of Computer Science, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada;Faculty of Computer Science, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

  • Venue:
  • EuroGP'06 Proceedings of the 9th European conference on Genetic Programming
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

This paper presents a genetic programming approach to detect deauthentication attacks on wireless networks based on the 802.11 protocol. To do so we focus on developing an appropriate fitness function and feature set. Results show that the intrusion system developed not only performs incredibly well – 100 percent detection rate and 0.5 percent false positive rate – but also developed a solution that is general enough to detect similar attacks, such as disassociation attacks, that were not present in the training data.