Detecting 802.11 wireless hosts from remote passive observations
by Valeria Baiamonte, Konstantina Papagiannaki, Gianluca Iannaccone
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| url: | http://www.pittsburgh.intel-research.net/~kpapagia/papers/wireless_detection_Networking2007.pdf | | abstract: | Abstract. The wide deployment of 802.11 WLANs has led to the coexistence
of wired and wireless clients in a network environment. This
paper presents a robust technique to detect 802.11 wireless hosts through
passive observation of client traffic streams at the edge of the network.
It is based on the estimation of entropy of packet interarrival times and
on the analysis of variation in the measured entropy values across individual
end host connections. With the aim of generating a physical
layer “signature” that can be easily extracted from packet traces, we
first perform controlled experiments and analyse them through Spectral
Analysis and Entropy evaluation. Based on the gained insight we design
a methodology for the identification of 802.11 wireless clients and test
it on two data sets of packet-level traces collected in different networks.
Our results demonstrate that wireless identification is highly precise in
the presence of a sufficient traffic sample. |
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