Thesis-2018-EscuderoAndreu.pdf (3.34 MB)
Protection of mobile and wireless networks against service availability attacks
thesis
posted on 2018-05-08, 15:34 authored by Gines Escudero-AndreuCellular and wireless communications are widely used as preferred technology for accessing
network services due to their flexibility and cost-effective deployment. 4G (4th Generation)
networks have been gradually substituting legacy systems, relying on the existing commercial
and private Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) infrastructures, mainly based on the IEEE
802.11 standard, to provide mobile data offloading and reduce congestion on the valuable
limited spectrum. Such predominant position on the market makes cellular and wireless
communications a profitable target for malicious users and hackers, justifying the constant
effort on protecting them from existing and future security threats. [Continues.]
Funding
Loughborough University, Graduate School.
History
School
- Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering
Publisher
© Ginés Escudero-AndreuPublisher statement
This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Publication date
2018Notes
A Doctoral Thesis. Submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the award of Doctor of Philosophy of Loughborough University.Language
- en