Performance analysis based on DDoS attack at MAC layer in WLAN / Zati Bayani Harun

Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) is an advance of technology that brought important changes to human life. Now, it is an integral part of everyday life, creature increasingly affordable and easier to build. But WLAN suffer from several security threats and one of that is Distributed Denial of Serv...

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Main Author: Harun, Zati Bayani
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Published: 2019
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Online Access:http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/26344/
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spelling uitm-263442019-11-27T06:56:20Z http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/26344/ Performance analysis based on DDoS attack at MAC layer in WLAN / Zati Bayani Harun Harun, Zati Bayani Wireless communication systems. Mobile communication systems. Access control Wireless LANs Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) is an advance of technology that brought important changes to human life. Now, it is an integral part of everyday life, creature increasingly affordable and easier to build. But WLAN suffer from several security threats and one of that is Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack which is jamming attack. Almost 81% of jamming attacks are initiated at the MAC layer due to the nature of wireless networks that lead to this project. Main objectives of this paper are to configure jamming attack at MAC layer in WLAN and to evaluate the performance of WLAN by using three types of metrices which is Bit Error Rate (BER), Throughput and Signal to Noise Ratio (SNR). For this purpose, jammer sending the maximum packets to the network to avoid legitimate nodes from sending their packets through wireless environment. OPNET Modeler 14.5 is used to configure and Microsoft Excel 2016 to analyze the performance of the network. A comparison of two scenarios which is network without attack and network with attack was conducted. It concluded that Throughput is a best metric to detect the attack compared to others. 2019-10-29 Thesis NonPeerReviewed text en http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/26344/1/TD_ZATI%20BAYANI%20HARUN%20CS%20R%2019_5.pdf Harun, Zati Bayani (2019) Performance analysis based on DDoS attack at MAC layer in WLAN / Zati Bayani Harun. Degree thesis, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Perlis.
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topic Wireless communication systems. Mobile communication systems. Access control
Wireless LANs
spellingShingle Wireless communication systems. Mobile communication systems. Access control
Wireless LANs
Harun, Zati Bayani
Performance analysis based on DDoS attack at MAC layer in WLAN / Zati Bayani Harun
description Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) is an advance of technology that brought important changes to human life. Now, it is an integral part of everyday life, creature increasingly affordable and easier to build. But WLAN suffer from several security threats and one of that is Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack which is jamming attack. Almost 81% of jamming attacks are initiated at the MAC layer due to the nature of wireless networks that lead to this project. Main objectives of this paper are to configure jamming attack at MAC layer in WLAN and to evaluate the performance of WLAN by using three types of metrices which is Bit Error Rate (BER), Throughput and Signal to Noise Ratio (SNR). For this purpose, jammer sending the maximum packets to the network to avoid legitimate nodes from sending their packets through wireless environment. OPNET Modeler 14.5 is used to configure and Microsoft Excel 2016 to analyze the performance of the network. A comparison of two scenarios which is network without attack and network with attack was conducted. It concluded that Throughput is a best metric to detect the attack compared to others.
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author Harun, Zati Bayani
author_facet Harun, Zati Bayani
author_sort Harun, Zati Bayani
title Performance analysis based on DDoS attack at MAC layer in WLAN / Zati Bayani Harun
title_short Performance analysis based on DDoS attack at MAC layer in WLAN / Zati Bayani Harun
title_full Performance analysis based on DDoS attack at MAC layer in WLAN / Zati Bayani Harun
title_fullStr Performance analysis based on DDoS attack at MAC layer in WLAN / Zati Bayani Harun
title_full_unstemmed Performance analysis based on DDoS attack at MAC layer in WLAN / Zati Bayani Harun
title_sort performance analysis based on ddos attack at mac layer in wlan / zati bayani harun
publishDate 2019
url http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/26344/
http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/26344/1/TD_ZATI%20BAYANI%20HARUN%20CS%20R%2019_5.pdf
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