Intelligent Detection of MAC Spoofing Attack in 802.11 Network

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Benzaid, Chafika, Boulgheraif, Abderrahman, Dahmane, Fatma Zohra, Al-Nemrat, A. and Zeraoulia, Khaled 2016. Intelligent Detection of MAC Spoofing Attack in 802.11 Network. in: Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).
AuthorsBenzaid, Chafika, Boulgheraif, Abderrahman, Dahmane, Fatma Zohra, Al-Nemrat, A. and Zeraoulia, Khaled
Abstract

In 802.11, all devices are uniquely identified by a Media
Access Control (MAC) address. However, legitimate MAC
addresses can be easily spoofed to launch various forms of
attacks, such as Denial of Service attacks. Impersonating
the MAC address of a legitimate user poses a big challenge
for cyber crime investigators. Indeed, MAC spoofing makes
the task of identifying the source of the attack very diffi-
cult. Sequence number analysis is a common technique used
to detect MAC spoofing attack. Existing solutions relying
on sequence number analysis, adopt a threshold-based approach
where the gap between consecutive sequence numbers
is compared to a threshold to decide the presence of
a MAC spoofing attack. Nevertheless, threshold-based approach
may lead to a high rate of false alerts due to lost or
duplicated frames.
To overcome the limitations of threshold-based approach,
this paper proposes a detection method that relies on a machine
learning approach, namely Artificial Neural Network
(ANN). ANNs provide the potential to identify and classify
network behavior from limited, noisy, incomplete and nonlinear
data sources. The experimentation results showed
the effectiveness of the proposed detection technique. Moreover,
we proposed a user-friendly graphical representation
of information to support the interpretation of quantitative
results.

Book titleProceedings of the 17th International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking
Year2016
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery (ACM)
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Print01 Apr 2016
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Deposited27 Feb 2017
Event17th International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking
ISBN978-1-4503-4032-8
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)https://doi.org/10.1145/2833312.2850446
Web address (URL)http://doi.org/10.1145/2833312.2850446
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© 2016 ACM. This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here for your personal use. Not for redistribution. The definitive Version of Record was published in Benzaïd, C. et al., 2016. Intelligent detection of MAC spoofing attack in 802.11 network. Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking - ICDCN ’16. Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2833312.2850446.

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