This paper examines the denial of service attacks that an 802.16 Broadband Wireless Access network is susceptible to at the physical and medium access control layers. In our threa...
Meadows recently proposed a formal cost-based framework for analysis of denial of service. It was showed how some principles that have already been used to make cryptographic prot...
Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) may be deployed in hostile or inaccessible environments and are often unattended. In these conditions securing a WSN against malicious attacks is a...
We present a formal specification of the PING protocol, and use three concepts of convergence theory, namely closure, convergence, and protection, to show that this protocol is se...
Denial of Service (DoS) attacks are a virulent type of attack on the availability of networks’ intended services and resources. Defense against DoS attacks has been built into th...