Authentication Flooding DOS Attack Detection and Prevention in 802.11

Abdallah Elhigazi; Shukor Abd Razak; Mosab Hamdan; Bushra Mohammed; Ibrahim Abaker; Abubakar Elsafi

doi:10.1109/SCOReD50371.2020.9250990

Authentication Flooding DOS Attack Detection and Prevention in 802.11

Abdallah Elhigazi, Shukor Abd Razak, Mosab Hamdan, Bushra Mohammed, Ibrahim Abaker, Abubakar Elsafi

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Abstract

Denial of Service (DOS) related attacks remain one of the most established attacks in the wireless local area network (WLAN). While several algorithms have been proposed to detect and prevent DOS attacks in WLANs, most of these methods come with weaknesses that provide attackers with avenues to launch attacks. For instance, the three security protocols set out by the 802.11 for the protection of wireless infrastructure network, namely, wired equivalent privacy (WEP), Wi-Fi protected access (WPA), and Wi-Fi protected access2 (WPA2), all suffer from DOS attacks. Thus, in this paper, we propose an algorithm for the detection and prevention authentication request flood attacks by using MAC filter buffer for the maintenance and filtering of MAC as well as buffer monitoring. Experimental results of our proposed algorithm show superior performance compared to other methods in terms of detection and prevention. The proposed algorithm has improved the detection performance by 98.4% comparing to the related work.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2020 IEEE Student Conference on Research and Development, SCOReD 2020
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages	325-329
Number of pages	5
ISBN (Electronic)	9781728193175
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/SCOReD50371.2020.9250990
State	Published - 27 Sep 2020
Externally published	Yes
Event	2020 IEEE Student Conference on Research and Development, SCOReD 2020 - Virtual, Johor, Malaysia Duration: 27 Sep 2020 → 28 Sep 2020

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Name	2020 IEEE Student Conference on Research and Development, SCOReD 2020

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Conference	2020 IEEE Student Conference on Research and Development, SCOReD 2020
Country/Territory	Malaysia
City	Virtual, Johor
Period	27/09/20 → 28/09/20

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Keywords

802.11
Authentication flooding
DOS attack

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Artificial Intelligence
Computer Science Applications
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Human-Computer Interaction
Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Media Technology
Waste Management and Disposal
Control and Optimization

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Elhigazi, A., Razak, S. A., Hamdan, M., Mohammed, B., Abaker, I., & Elsafi, A. (2020). Authentication Flooding DOS Attack Detection and Prevention in 802.11. In 2020 IEEE Student Conference on Research and Development, SCOReD 2020 (pp. 325-329). Article 9250990 (2020 IEEE Student Conference on Research and Development, SCOReD 2020). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.. https://doi.org/10.1109/SCOReD50371.2020.9250990

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Elhigazi, A, Razak, SA, Hamdan, M, Mohammed, B, Abaker, I & Elsafi, A 2020, Authentication Flooding DOS Attack Detection and Prevention in 802.11. in 2020 IEEE Student Conference on Research and Development, SCOReD 2020., 9250990, 2020 IEEE Student Conference on Research and Development, SCOReD 2020, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., pp. 325-329, 2020 IEEE Student Conference on Research and Development, SCOReD 2020, Virtual, Johor, Malaysia, 27/09/20. https://doi.org/10.1109/SCOReD50371.2020.9250990

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Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

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Authentication Flooding DOS Attack Detection and Prevention in 802.11

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