Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Sydney, 2008. / Includes tables. Includes list of publications. Title from title screen (viewed October 30, 2008). Submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the School of Electrical and Information Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Information Technologies. Includes bibliographical references. Also available in print form.

Ma Yu Tak. / Thesis submitted in: October 2006. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2007. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 70-73). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / Chapter 1 --- Introduction --- p.1 / Chapter 2 --- IEEE 802.11 Standard --- p.4 / Chapter 3 --- Vulnerabilities of IEEE 802.11 --- p.8 / Chapter 3.1 --- Authentication Vulnerabilities --- p.8 / Chapter 3.2 --- Medium Access Control Vulnerabilities --- p.9 / Chapter 3.3 --- Proposed Counter-Measures --- p.10 / Chapter 4 --- Denial-of-Service Attacks by Exploiting the MAC protocol --- p.12 / Chapter 5 --- Simulation Results --- p.20 / Chapter 5.1 --- General DoS Attack Simulations --- p.21 / Chapter 5.1.1 --- Topology 1: A Simple Wireless Network --- p.21 / Chapter 5.1.2 --- Topology 2: Wireless Network in Ad-Hoc Mode --- p.24 / Chapter 5.1.3 --- Topology 3: Network with Hidden Node Problem --- p.29 / Chapter 5.2 --- Targeted DoS Attack Simulations --- p.32 / Chapter 5.2.1 --- Topology 4: A Simple Wireless Network --- p.32 / Chapter 5.2.2 --- Topology 4: A Simple Network with Reversed TCP Flows --- p.38 / Chapter 6 --- Detecting and Solving the Attacks --- p.41 / Chapter 6.1 --- Detection of Attacker --- p.41 / Chapter 6.1.1 --- Detecting General DoS Attackers --- p.41 / Chapter 6.1.2 --- Detecting Targeted DoS Attackers --- p.44 / Chapter 6.2 --- Possible Solutions to the DoS Attacks --- p.53 / Bibliography --- p.70 / Chapter A --- TCP Exponential Backoff with Non-Zero Throughput --- p.74 / Chapter A.1 --- TCP Exponential Backoff Background --- p.74 / Chapter A.2 --- Illustration by Simulation --- p.76 / Chapter A.3 --- Implication of the Finding --- p.77 / Chapter B --- Idle Sense in networks with Hidden Node Problem --- p.79 / Chapter B.1 --- Simulation findings --- p.79 / Chapter B.1.1 --- Four hidden nodes case --- p.79 / Chapter B.1.2 --- Analysis of the simulation results --- p.81 / Chapter B.1.3 --- Study of mixed node types --- p.82 / Chapter B.2 --- Possible approaches to use Idle Sense with Hidden Node Problem --- p.84 / Chapter B.2.1 --- Performance Evaluation --- p.88 / Chapter B.3 --- Conclusions --- p.91

Chan Pak To Patrick. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2005. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 82-86). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / Abstract --- p.i / Acknowledgement --- p.iii / Contents --- p.iv / List of Figures --- p.vii / List of Tables --- p.viii / Chapter 1 --- Introduction --- p.1 / Chapter 1.1 --- Motivation --- p.1 / Chapter 1.2 --- The Problems --- p.3 / Chapter 1.3 --- My Contribution --- p.4 / Chapter 1.4 --- Thesis Organization --- p.5 / Chapter 2 --- Wireless LAN Security Model --- p.6 / Chapter 2.1 --- Preliminary Definitions on WLAN --- p.6 / Chapter 2.2 --- Security Model --- p.7 / Chapter 2.2.1 --- Security Attributes --- p.7 / Chapter 2.2.2 --- Security Threats in WLAN --- p.8 / Chapter 2.2.3 --- Attacks on Authentication Scheme --- p.10 / Chapter 2.2.4 --- Attacks on Keys --- p.10 / Chapter 2.3 --- Desired Properties of WLAN Authentication --- p.11 / Chapter 2.3.1 --- Security Requirements of WLAN Authentication --- p.11 / Chapter 2.3.2 --- Security Requirements of Session Keys --- p.12 / Chapter 2.3.3 --- Other Desired Properties of WLAN Authentication --- p.12 / Chapter 3 --- Cryptography --- p.14 / Chapter 3.1 --- Overview on Cryptography --- p.14 / Chapter 3.2 --- Symmetric-key Encryption --- p.15 / Chapter 3.2.1 --- Data Encryption Standard (DES) --- p.15 / Chapter 3.2.2 --- Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) --- p.15 / Chapter 3.2.3 --- RC4 --- p.16 / Chapter 3.3 --- Public-key Cryptography --- p.16 / Chapter 3.3.1 --- RSA Problem and Related Encryption Schemes --- p.17 / Chapter 3.3.2 --- Discrete Logarithm Problem and Related Encryption Schemes --- p.18 / Chapter 3.3.3 --- Elliptic Curve Cryptosystems --- p.19 / Chapter 3.3.4 --- Digital Signature --- p.19 / Chapter 3.4 --- Public Key Infrastructure --- p.20 / Chapter 3.5 --- Hash Functions and Message Authentication Code --- p.21 / Chapter 3.5.1 --- SHA-256 --- p.22 / Chapter 3.5.2 --- Message Authentication Code --- p.22 / Chapter 3.6 --- Entity Authentication --- p.23 / Chapter 3.6.1 --- ISO/IEC 9798-4 Three-pass Mutual --- p.23 / Chapter 3.6.2 --- ISO/IEC 9798-4 One-pass Unilateral --- p.24 / Chapter 3.7 --- Key Establishment --- p.24 / Chapter 3.7.1 --- Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange --- p.24 / Chapter 3.7.2 --- Station-to-Station Protocol --- p.25 / Chapter 3.8 --- Identity-Based Cryptography --- p.25 / Chapter 3.8.1 --- The Boneh-Franklin Encryption Scheme --- p.26 / Chapter 3.8.2 --- Au and Wei's Identification Scheme and Signature Scheme --- p.27 / Chapter 4 --- Basics of WLAN Security and WEP --- p.29 / Chapter 4.1 --- Basics of WLAN Security --- p.29 / Chapter 4.1.1 --- "Overview on ""Old"" WLAN Security" --- p.29 / Chapter 4.1.2 --- Some Basic Security Measures --- p.29 / Chapter 4.1.3 --- Virtual Private Network (VPN) --- p.30 / Chapter 4.2 --- WEP --- p.31 / Chapter 4.2.1 --- Overview on Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) --- p.31 / Chapter 4.2.2 --- Security Analysis on WEP --- p.33 / Chapter 5 --- IEEE 802.11i --- p.38 / Chapter 5.1 --- Overview on IEEE 802.11i and RSN --- p.38 / Chapter 5.2 --- IEEE 802.1X Access Control in IEEE 802.11i --- p.39 / Chapter 5.2.1 --- Participants --- p.39 / Chapter 5.2.2 --- Port-based Access Control --- p.40 / Chapter 5.2.3 --- EAP and EAPOL --- p.40 / Chapter 5.2.4 --- RADIUS --- p.41 / Chapter 5.2.5 --- Authentication Message Exchange --- p.41 / Chapter 5.2.6 --- Security Analysis --- p.41 / Chapter 5.3 --- RSN Key Management --- p.43 / Chapter 5.3.1 --- RSN Pairwise Key Hierarchy --- p.43 / Chapter 5.3.2 --- RSN Group Key Hierarchy --- p.43 / Chapter 5.3.3 --- Four-way Handshake and Group Key Handshake --- p.44 / Chapter 5.4 --- RSN Encryption and Data Integrity --- p.45 / Chapter 5.4.1 --- TKIP --- p.45 / Chapter 5.4.2 --- CCMP --- p.46 / Chapter 5.5 --- Upper Layer Authentication Protocols --- p.47 / Chapter 5.5.1 --- Overview on the Upper Layer Authentication --- p.47 / Chapter 5.5.2 --- EAP-TLS --- p.48 / Chapter 5.5.3 --- Other Popular ULA Protocols --- p.50 / Chapter 6 --- Proposed IEEE 802.11i Authentication Scheme --- p.52 / Chapter 6.1 --- Proposed Protocol --- p.52 / Chapter 6.1.1 --- Overview --- p.52 / Chapter 6.1.2 --- The AUTHENTICATE Protocol --- p.56 / Chapter 6.1.3 --- The RECONNECT Protocol --- p.59 / Chapter 6.1.4 --- Packet Format --- p.61 / Chapter 6.1.5 --- Ciphersuites Negotiation --- p.64 / Chapter 6.1.6 --- Delegation --- p.64 / Chapter 6.1.7 --- Identity Privacy --- p.68 / Chapter 6.2 --- Security Considerations --- p.68 / Chapter 6.2.1 --- Security of the AUTHENTICATE protocol --- p.68 / Chapter 6.2.2 --- Security of the RECONNECT protocol --- p.69 / Chapter 6.2.3 --- Security of Key Derivation --- p.70 / Chapter 6.2.4 --- EAP Security Claims and EAP Methods Requirements --- p.72 / Chapter 6.3 --- Efficiency Analysis --- p.76 / Chapter 6.3.1 --- Overview --- p.76 / Chapter 6.3.2 --- Bandwidth Performance --- p.76 / Chapter 6.3.3 --- Computation Speed --- p.76 / Chapter 7 --- Conclusion --- p.79 / Chapter 7.1 --- Summary --- p.79 / Chapter 7.2 --- Future Work --- p.80 / Bibliography --- p.82

Cui, Yuanyuan. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2009. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 64-68). / Abstract also in Chinese. / Chapter Chapter 1 --- Introduction --- p.1 / Chapter 1 .1 --- Motivations and Contributions --- p.1 / Chapter 1.2 --- Related Works --- p.3 / Chapter 1.3 --- Organization of the Thesis --- p.4 / Chapter Chapter 2 --- Background --- p.5 / Chapter 2.1 --- IEEE 802.11 --- p.5 / Chapter 2.1.1 --- IEEE 802.11 Topologies --- p.5 / Chapter 2.1.2 --- IEEE 802.11 MAC --- p.8 / Chapter 2.2 --- Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) --- p.11 / Chapter 2.2.1 --- A VoIP system --- p.11 / Chapter 2.2.2 --- QoS requirements for VoIP --- p.11 / Chapter 2.2.3 --- VoIP speech codecs --- p.12 / Chapter 2.3 --- VoIP over WLAN --- p.13 / Chapter 2.3.1 --- System Architecture of VoIP over WLAN --- p.14 / Chapter 2.3.2 --- VoIP Capacity over WLAN --- p.15 / Chapter 2.4 --- Skype --- p.16 / Chapter Chapter 3 --- Skype Rate Adaptation Mechanism --- p.17 / Chapter 3.1 --- Experimental Setting --- p.17 / Chapter 3.2 --- Overview --- p.19 / Chapter 3.3 --- Flow Rate Region --- p.20 / Chapter 3.4 --- Feedback: Receiver Report (RR) --- p.21 / Chapter 3.5 --- Bandwidth Usage Target (BM) --- p.24 / Chapter 3.6 --- Summary of Skype Rate Adaptation Mechanism --- p.28 / Chapter 3.7 --- Skype-emulating Traffic Generator --- p.28 / Chapter Chapter 4 --- "Call Admission, Fairness and Stability Control" --- p.32 / Chapter 4.1 --- Unfair and Instability problems for AVoIP --- p.32 / Chapter 4.1.1 --- Analysis --- p.32 / Chapter 4.1.2 --- Simulation Evaluation --- p.34 / Chapter 4.2 --- CFSC scheme --- p.37 / Chapter 4.2.1 --- Pre-admission Bandwidth-reallocation Call Admission Control (PBCAC) --- p.39 / Chapter 4.2.2 --- Fairness Control --- p.42 / Chapter 4.2.3 --- Stability Control --- p.43 / Chapter Chapter 5 --- Performance Evaluation of CFSC --- p.44 / Chapter 5.1 --- Evaluation of Fairness Control --- p.44 / Chapter 5.2 --- Evaluation of Stability Control --- p.46 / Chapter 5.3 --- Evaluation of PBCAC --- p.46 / Chapter 5.4 --- Evaluation of complete CFSC --- p.49 / Chapter Chapter 6 --- Conclusion --- p.51 / Appendices --- p.53 / References --- p.64

Thesis (M.S. in Computer Science)--Naval Postgraduate School, December 2003. / Thesis advisor(s): William J. Ray, Man-Tak Shing. Includes bibliographical references (p. 115). Also available online.

Thesis (M.S.)--Oregon State University, 2008. / Printout. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 49-50). Also available on the World Wide Web.

Thesis(M.S.)--Auburn University, 2006. / Abstract. Vita. Includes bibliographic references (p.63-67).

Thesis (M. Phil.)--Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 2004. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 63-66). Also available in electronic version. Access restricted to campus users.

Thesis (M. Phil.)--Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 2004. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 108-112). Also available in electronic version. Access restricted to campus users.

Thesis (M.S. in Computer Science)--Naval Postgraduate School, Sept. 2004. / Thesis advisor(s): Gurminder Singh, Alex Bordetsky. Includes bibliographical references (p. 73). Also available online.