Insecurity of WLAN for M-Learning Implementation in Tertiary Level by DoS

International Journal of Future Computer and Communication, Vol. 1, No. 3, October 2012
  Chandrasekaran Nammalwar and Rajeswari C.

Mobility, mobile technology and mobile

computing are few buzz words in all the fields. This makes

human beings life easy and goes for anywhere, anytime working

conditions. In educational field Networking and mobile

computing are playing major role in the shift from the

traditional black board teaching to contemporary E-Learning

and M-Learning environment. But the major issue with the

wireless network is vulnerability, denial of service and in

general security compared to the wired network. To secure

WLAN in organizations and institutions, the world is moving to

ubiquitous and seamless computing environments. On the

negative side, unlike wired networks, these networks are more

vulnerable making it easy for an intruder to capture

transmitted signals and also send massive volume of illegitimate

traffic and utilize system resources in a way that renders the

system inoperable thus denying access to authorized users. This

paper demonstrated different methods of achieving denial of

service (DoS) attack as it applies to wireless networks and

discusses and proposes different defense mechanisms so as to

minimize the attacks.

Insecurity of WLAN for M-Learning Implementation in Tertiary Level by DoS