Chapter 8

Defending Against Identity-Based Attacks in Wireless Networks

Yingying Chen, Jie Yang

8.1 Introduction

The advancement of cyber-physical infrastructures allows us to share information gathered by wireless devices and makes it available to users to consume or process on-the-go. At the heart of the technologies facilitating such pervasive computing are wireless technologies, which provide the ubiquitous communication coverage necessary in cyber-physical infrastructures. These rapidly advancing wireless technologies reveal a vast heterogeneity of platforms, such as wireless local area networks (WLANs), wireless sensor networks, 3G cellular networks and radio frequency identification (RFID) technology. However, the security of the wireless ...

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