Identification of probe request attacks in WLANs using neural networks

Ratnayake, Deepthi N., Kazemian, Hassan and Yusuf, Syed A. (2014) Identification of probe request attacks in WLANs using neural networks. Neural Computing and Applications, 25 (1). pp. 1-14. ISSN 0941-0643

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Abstract / Description

Any sniffer can see the information sent through unprotected ‘probe request messages’ and ‘probe response messages’ in wireless local area networks (WLAN). A station (STA) can send probe requests to trigger probe responses by simply spoofing a genuine media access control (MAC) address to deceive access point (AP) controlled access list. Adversaries exploit these weaknesses to flood APs with probe requests, which can generate a denial of service (DoS) to genuine STAs. The research examines traffic of a WLAN using supervised feed-forward neural network classifier to identify genuine frames from rogue frames. The novel feature of this approach is to capture the genuine user and attacker training data separately and label them prior to training without network administrator’s intervention. The model’s performance is validated using self-consistency and fivefold cross-validation tests. The simulation is comprehensive and takes into account the real-world environment. The results show that this approach detects probe request attacks extremely well. This solution also detects an attack during an early stage of the communication, so that it can prevent any other attacks when an adversary contemplates to start breaking into the network.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	wireless LAN, intrusion detection, real-time systems, IEEE 802.11, DoS attacks, feed-forward neural networks
Subjects:	000 Computer science, information & general works 600 Technology > 620 Engineering & allied operations
Department:	School of Computing and Digital Media
Depositing User:	Hassan Kazemian
Date Deposited:	04 Nov 2015 09:23
Last Modified:	17 Oct 2018 09:09
URI:	https://repository.londonmet.ac.uk/id/eprint/787

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