The Rether[1] protocol was originally developed to support guaranteed Quality of Service (QoS) for shared Ethernet LANs. In view of the growing popularity of IEEE 802.11-based wireless LANs, we have modified the Rether protocol to provide QoS guarantee on these networks. In this paper, we present the design and software-only implementation of the Wireless Rether protocol for 802.11 networks, as...

Abstract This paper addresses denial of service vulnerabilities (DOS) in 802.11 wireless LANs that arise from the 802.11 distributed coordination function (DCF). We demonstrate that the DCF is vulnerable to equivalent DOS attacks at both the MAC and PHY layers. Denial of service attacks against the DCF are easily staged by a single adversary and affect both infrastructure and mobile ad hoc netw...

Rether[1] was originally developed to support guaranteed Quality of Service (QoS) for shared Ethernet LANs. With the growing popularity of wireless LANs, we modified the Rether protocol to provide QoS guarantee on wireless networks. In this paper, we present the design and implementation of the Wireless Rether protocol for 802.11 networks. Wireless Rether supports QoS for TCP, UDP and ICMP traf...

of the Dissertation Implementation Techniques for Scalable, Secure and QoS-Guaranteed Enterprise-Grade Wireless LANs

Wireless LAN technology, despite the numerous advantages it has over competing technologies, has not seen widespread deployment. A primary reason for markets not adopting this technology is its failure to provide adequate security. Data that is sent over wireless links can be compromised with utmost ease. In this project, we propose a distributed agent based intrusion detection and response sys...

To allow a seamless integration between wireless LANs and Wireless WANs, we developed a full stack adaptation model and a simple subnet architecture that superimposes Mobile-IP on cellular-type wireless LANs. The idea is to use Mobile IP as an integrative layer atop different LAN/WAN networks. While Mobile-IP is widely used in wireless WANs, it is not known how well it performs under a wireless...

To allow a seamless integration between wireless LANs and Wireless WANs, we developed a full stack adaptation model and a simple subnet architecture that superimposes Mobile-IP on cellular-type wireless LANs. The idea is to use Mobile IP as an integrative layer atop different LAN/WAN networks. While Mobile-IP is widely used in wireless WANs, it is not known how well it performs under a wireless...

The Wireless LANs standardization and R&D activities worldwide, combined with the recent successful deployment of WLANs in numerous hotspots, justify the fact that WLAN technology will play a key role in the wireless data transmission.