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Seminar on Network Security
Introduction of the topics and some material for the session ofDenial-of-Service
DOS attacks against mobile networks
Tutor: Tuomas Aura-
Required prior skills:
- describe radio jamming attacks,
- evaluate the vulnerability of current networks to these attack, and
- explain how the threats can be mitigated.
This is an advanced topic. A good understanding of either radio technology or mobile some mobile network protocols is needed. (Graph theory and approximation algorithms would also do.)
Public wireless networks are highly vulnerable to denial-of-service (DOS) attacks because it is easy for the attacker to gain access to them. DOS attacks prevent other users from accessing the networks by either destroying parts of it or by exhausting a limited resource such as radio bandwidth or server capacity.
A student with a good knowledge of radio communications may concentrate on the jamming and spread-spectrum part. The seminar paper could, for example,
An advances student could also choose to write a general overview of denial of service attacks against mobile networks or to focus on a particular attack and its countermeasures. This topic may be more difficult than is first sounds because there is not much literature specifically on DOS attacks against mobile networks. If you nevertheless have some ideas, please contact me by email.
I also have a related research topic for a student with a background in mathematics and an interest in graph theory and approximative solutions of optimization problems.
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