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Study on Jammers and Defense Strategies in Wireless Networks
| International Journal of Computer Applications |
| Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA |
| Volume 62 - Number 2 |
| Year of Publication: 2013 |
| Authors: E. Sasikala, N. Rengarajan |
10.5120/10052-4639
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E. Sasikala, N. Rengarajan . Study on Jammers and Defense Strategies in Wireless Networks. International Journal of Computer Applications. 62, 2 ( January 2013), 21-23. DOI=10.5120/10052-4639
Abstract
Wireless networks overcame the limitations of the traditional approaches in the implementation of the wired networks. The number of nodes can be easily extended and provided with then the services of the networks. Amenities of the private networks are risked by the invaders and their activities to disclose the confidential contents. These invaders established a standard mode of attacking by jamming the services upon described functions. The jammers would key in attack packets to the networks claiming to be a reasonable request to block the services of the intended users. Ultimately, the network would continue answering the meaningless queries of the attackers thereby avoiding or making the users to wait indefinitely. Increase in the attacks would degrade the services and standards of the wireless networks. Denial of Service (DoS) attacks involves mechanisms to flood the medium of data transfer with futile packets, or to alter the contents of the significant information of the packets. Denial of Service attacks has extended their area of attacks to pretense their identity and revises the contents of the message packets to pose a threat to the networks. Mechanisms that have been proposed to detect and mitigate the effects of those jammers are examined in this study.
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