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A Passive Fingerprint Technique to Detect Fake Access Points,

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The aim of this paper is to detect Rogue Access Points (RAPs) that clone legitimate Access Points (APs) characteristics. A novel passive approach that takes advantage of the characteristics of physical layer fields via the Radiotap length is proposed. This approach is a general fingerprint, thus, it can be used for different purposes such as identification, network monitoring and intrusion detection systems. We utilize the fingerprint to detect RAPs to evaluate its effectiveness. The technique is implemented on a commercially available wireless card to assess its accuracy. The proposed detection algorithm accomplishes 100 percent accuracy to determine the RAPs in a lightly loaded traffic environment. The detection can be recognized in less than 100 ms and is scanned in a real-time setting. The robustness and the effectiveness of the detection algorithm are examined in three locations.
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... Another AP profiling research conducted by Li and Li [40], proposed a novel approach by capturing and processing the frame to acquire the fingerprint, then determining the AP status, based on Gaussian and Naive Bayes algorithm. A study from Alotaibi and Elleithy [41] explained how to capture, extract, and store the features from the beacon frames, as a fundamental detection characteristics of RAP profiling algorithm. ...
... While agent deployment, which is an admin-side approach, has good prospects for the industrial application, as it allows automation in detecting RAP without a significant role from the client, as implemented by several network companies. [21], [24], [25], [27], [29], [30], [75], [36], [38], [39], [40], [41], [42], [43], [45], [46], [47], [48], [49], [31] Packet behaviour MAC, NUL, PHY [51], [53], [56], [57], [58], [59], [ ...
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