Pervasive Wireless Environments - Detecting and Localizing User Spoofing

This Springer Brief provides a new approach to prevent user spoofing by using the physical properties associated with wireless transmissions to detect the presence of user spoofing. The most common method, applying cryptographic authentication, requires additional management and computational power that cannot be deployed consistently. The authors present the new approach by offering a summary of the recent research and exploring the benefits and potential challenges of this method.This brief discusses the feasibility of launching user spoofing attacks and their impact on the wireless and sensor networks. Readers are equipped to understand several system models. One attack detection model exploits the spatial correlation of received signal strength (RSS) inherited from wireless devices as a foundation. Through experiments in practical environments, the authors evaluate the performance of the spoofing attack detection model. The brief also introduces the DEMOTE system, which exploits the correlation within the RSS trace based on each device's identity to detect mobile attackers. A final chapter covers future directions of this field.By presenting complex technical information in a concise format, this brief is a valuable resource for researchers, professionals, and advanced-level students focused on wireless network security.

List of contents

Introduction.- Feasibility of Launching User Spoofing.- Attack Detection Model.- Detection and Localizing Multiple Spoofing Attackers.-Detecting Mobile Agents Using Identity Fraud.- Related Work.- Conclusions and Future Work.

Product details

• Authors: Yingying Chen, Jerry Cheng, Wade Trappe, Jie Yang
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.07.2014
• EAN: 9783319073552
• ISBN: 978-3-31-907355-2
• No. of pages: 72
• Dimensions: 158 mm x 234 mm x 5 mm
• Weight: 137 g
• Illustrations: VIII, 72 p. 27 illus.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Computer Science
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > IT; C, computer science, Information Retrieval, Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet), Systems and Data Security, Data and Information Security, Computer and Information Systems Applications, Application software, Computer Communication Networks, Information Systems and Communication Service, Computers, Network Security, Computer security, Internet searching, Computer communication systems, Computer networking & communications, Network hardware