Mac Layer Management Frame Denial of Service Attacks

Abstract

In the today era internet is very great in demand and it is become more important when comes into wireless. Wireless LAN are more flexible and easy to use than wired LAN. So, people always want to connect with wireless network but always forget about the security. There are many attacks which are possible in 802.11 WLAN, we also have various protocols such as WEP, WPA and WPA2 for protecting these kinds of attacks. But the availability attacks such as management frame DOS attack are still possible due to these frame occurred before the handshake process. This paper tells us mainly 2 types of DOS attack as deauthentication and disassociation frame attack which is used for the termination purpose in infrastrutured network. We also tells various detection and prevention mechanism for these types of attacks.