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SAWAN: A Survivable Architecture for Wireless LANs
Overview This paper describes survivability schemes against Access Point (AP) failures in Wireless LANs. It particularly aims for resiliency and survivability against multistage attacks where the adversary is successful in compromising the AP, and then targets the survived but more vulnerable network. This is true in real life where the adversary knows that survivability is a design consideration built into the network. It then performs a multistage targeted attack that is aimed at compromising the survived network that may have vulnerabilities. The paper presents a unique Infrastructure for an Ad-hoc Migration Scheme (IAMS) where the nodes under a failed AP form an ad-hoc network and reconnect to the network using available neighboring APs.
| Publisher | University at Buffalo | File Format | |
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| Date Published | January 2005 | ||
| Format | White Papers | ||
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