%C Corfu
%I Springer New York LLC
%A D.N. Ratnayake
%A H.B. Kazemian
%A S.A. Yusuf
%A A.B. Abdullah
%V 363 AI
%T An intelligent approach to detect probe request attacks in IEEE 802.11 networks
%P 372-381
%X In Wireless Local Area Networks (WLAN), beacon, probe request and response messages are unprotected, so the information is visible to sniffers. Probe requests can be sent by anyone with a legitimate Media Access Control (MAC) address, as association to the network is not required at this stage. Legitimate MAC addresses can be easily spoofed to bypass Access Point (AP) access lists. Attackers take advantage of these vulnerabilities and send a flood of probe request frames which can lead to a Denial-of-Service (DoS) to legitimate stations. This paper discusses an intelligent approach to recognise probe request attacks in WLANs. The research investigates and analyses WLAN traffic captured on a home wireless network, and uses supervised feedforward neural network with 4 input neurons, 2 hidden layers and an output neuron to determine the results. The computer simulation results demonstrate that this approach improves detection of MAC spoofing and probe request attacks considerably. © 2011 International Federation for Information Processing.
%K Denial-of-service attack; Feedforward neural networks; Floods; Home networks; Medium access control; Probes; Radio; Wireless local area networks (WLAN); Access control; Neural networks; Standards, Denial of Service; Hidden layers; IEEE 802.11 networks; IEEE 802.11s; Input neurons; Media access control; Output neurons; Probe request flooding attacks; Access points, IEEE Standards; Local area networks
%R 10.1007/978-3-642-23957-1₄₂
%N PART 1
%D 2011
%L scholars2335
%J IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology
%O cited By 6; Conference of 12th INNS EANN-SIG International Conference on Engineering Applications of Neural Networks, EANN 2011 ; Conference Date: 15 September 2011 Through 18 September 2011; Conference Code:87082