{"id":28086,"date":"2014-08-01T10:30:47","date_gmt":"2014-08-01T14:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cise\/?post_type=research&#038;p=28086"},"modified":"2021-08-24T19:25:18","modified_gmt":"2021-08-24T23:25:18","slug":"twc-medium-collaborative-strengthening-wi-fi-network-wide","status":"publish","type":"research","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cise\/research\/twc-medium-collaborative-strengthening-wi-fi-network-wide\/","title":{"rendered":"TWC: Medium: Collaborative: Strengthening Wi-Fi Network Wide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>Wi-Fi has emerged as the technology of choice for Internet access. Thus, virtually every smartphone or tablet is now equipped with a Wi-Fi card. Concurrently, and as a means to maximize spectral efficiency, Wi-Fi radios are becoming increasingly complex and sensitive to wireless channel conditions. The prevalence of Wi-Fi networks, along with their adaptive behaviors, makes them an ideal target for denial of service attacks at a large, infrastructure level.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>This project aims to comprehensively investigate the resiliency of Wi-Fi networks to smart attacks, and to design and implement robust solutions capable of resisting or countering them. The project additionally focuses on harnessing new capabilities of Wi-Fi radios, such as multiple-input and multiple-output (MIMO) antennas, to protect against powerful adversaries. The research blends theory with experimentation and prototyping, and spans a range of disciplines including protocol design and analysis, coding and modulation, on-line algorithms, queuing theory, and emergent behaviors.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The anticipated benefits of the project include: (1) a deep understanding of threats facing Wi-Fi along several dimensions, via experiments and analysis; (2) a set of mitigation techniques and algorithms to strengthen existing Wi-Fi networks and emerging standards; (3) implementation into open-source software that can be deployed on wireless network cards and access points; (4) security training of the next-generation of scientists and engineers involved in radio design and deployment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>For more information<\/strong>:\u00a0click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nsf.gov\/awardsearch\/showAward?AWD_ID=1409053\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wi-Fi has emerged as the technology of choice for Internet access. Thus, virtually every smartphone or tablet is now equipped with a Wi-Fi card. Concurrently, and as a means to maximize spectral efficiency, Wi-Fi radios are becoming increasingly complex and sensitive to wireless channel conditions. The prevalence of Wi-Fi networks, along with their adaptive behaviors, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","format":"standard","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/research\/28086"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/research"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/research"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/research\/28086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32587,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/research\/28086\/revisions\/32587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}