Measuring impact of Wi-Fi denial-of-service attacks

By John Cox – “In a Wi-Fi network, the Denial of Service attacks are usually generated by so called ‘backoff misbehavior,’” Wenye Wang, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, North Carolina State University (NCSU), says. Based on the Wi-Fi protocols, client radios “listen” to see if the radio channel is being used. If it is, it “backs off” and waits for a set period, and then listens...