Abstract

A Comparison of Integrated Central Manager (ICM) and Traffic Pattern Filtering with Letter Envelop Protocol (TPF-LEP) is done. Denial of Service (DoS) attack is a biggest peril in wireless local area infrastructure network. It makes the resources unavailable for intended users which transpired through spoofing legitimate Client/AP's Medium Access Control (MAC) address. MAC address are easily caricatured by the adversary clients, subsequently they are not encrypted. Since, the adversary sends the management frame, which is unencrypted, to the victim using spoofed MAC address. This study compares the performance of Integrated Central Manager (ICM) and Traffic Pattern Filtering with Letter Envelop Protocol (TPF-LEP) and evaluated the result using NS2. The attack scenario is simulated and effectiveness of the solutions is validated after the instigation of solutions in the attack consequences. Throughput, Packet Delivery Ratio and Packet Loss are measured and taken to endorse the performance of ICM and TPF-LEP.

Keywords:

Access point, dos attack, ICM, infrastructure network, MAC spoof, TPF-LEP,

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