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Re: Detection of Rogue Access Points

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matthias Waehlisch)
Sun Oct 14 17:55:25 2012

Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2012 23:56:49 +0200
From: Matthias Waehlisch <waehlisch@ieee.org>
To: Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ca>
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On Sun, 14 Oct 2012, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote:

> There was a SIGCOMM paper a few years back that described a scheme 
> based on measuring the the ACK delays of TCP sessions. In a nutshell, 
> you can detect nodes on the wireless network by looking for the extra 
> delay added by the radio link.  It had very good accuracy, and caught 
> new nodes quickly.  It didn't require any prior knowledge of the 
> network.
> 
> I don't have a copy of the paper at hand, and I don't remember the 
> title/author or the publication date (2007ish?), but maybe this will 
> ring a bell for someone else on the list who does.
>
  do you mean http://conferences.sigcomm.org/imc/2007/papers/imc122.pdf 
?



Cheers
  matthias

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