Security issues of wireless LANs

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Subject: Engineering- Networking- Security issues of wireless LANs- Denial of service attacks at MAC layer.
Requirements: Backtrack 4 software, Wi-fi configured laptop, Linksys 54g access point, documentation of practical work and theoretical work with specific screen shorts of results and commands, relevant figures and tables. the documentation should be at least 11000 words without any plagiarism.
Note: the entire project has to be performed in backtrack 4 only.
Abstract: This project will investigate security issues associated with wireless LANS. This will involve theoretical studies and tests are various software to determine wireless LAN vunerability.
but the main concentration is on denial of service attacks at MAC layer.
Aims and Objectives:
Design or implement and test a programme capable of performing denial of service attacks by using the tools in backtrack 4.

Task 1: authentication-association flood arrack: overloading the access point by using the tools in backtrack 4 software. Find the tools in the back track 4 that creates the file of clients to connect access point. by using the tools in backtrack 4 connect the clients in the laptop to access point and send the authentication request and change the MAC address of the client and connect to access point and again send the authentication requests. And again change the MAC address of the client and connect to access point. Repeat the same process until the access point is full or overloaded.
Task 2: deauthentication-disassociation flood attack.
the project dissertation outline should be:
Dissertation Contents
The dissertation will include the following chapters:
1. Abstract
2. Introduction
3. Literature Review
4. Practical Work
5. Hypothesis Testing
6. Project Evaluation
7. Conclusions and Recommendations
The chapters in bold must be included.
The exact title and contents of the chapters in italics will depend on the nature of the project. See below for more details
Abstract
The Abstract should be a single paragraph summarising the project, including one sentence each on:
â�’¢ Motivation
â�’¢ Hypothesis / Research Question
â�’¢ Work done
â�’¢ Results
â�’¢ Conclusions
The job of the abstract is to summarise the project in such a way to allow a reader to decide whether the report is relevant to them, and whether they should read it.
Introduction
The Introduction should summarise the entire project, including a paragraph each on:
â�’¢ Motivation
â�’¢ Hypothesis / Research Question
â�’¢ Work done (including list of objectives achieved)
â�’¢ Results
â�’¢ Conclusions
The Introduction should also include an explanation of structure of the report. The job of the Introduction is to summarise the entire project in such a way that the reader should not need to read the rest of the report, since all the important points are summarised here. If the reader were interested in some particular detail of the project, then the introduction should direct them to the relevant chapter.
You should not write the introduction and abstract until you have completed the entire project
Literature Review
The literature review chapters should each concentrate on one particular aspect of the background. It is a review, not a survey, which means that it should not be a collection of all previous literature in the field, but instead should be a careful selection of relevant papers. For each paper selected, you should discuss its relevance to your project, discuss the work done, the results found and the strength of those findings. There should be some degree of critical evaluation: some research is stronger than others, and just because some research has been published does not mean that it will be convincing or definitive.
The hypothesis or research question should be the natural conclusion of the literature review. In other words it should follow clearly and logically from your review why your chosen question is worth asking (and answering). For example because it fills a hole in existing research, or corroborates previous work, or tries a variant of previous research
Practical Work
This should discuss any practical work done. If a significant product is built then this should include a discussion of each stage of the product development life cycle, including:
â�’¢ Definition of requirements
â�’¢ Design
â�’¢ Implementation
â�’¢ Testing
Along with consideration of any tools and technologies used. This discussion should outline the choices made, along with any alternatives considered and the reasons for those choices.
Hypothesis Testing
The content of these chapter(s) depend on the nature of the project. For development-type projects, then the hypothesis to be tested is that the product created � or the method used to create the product � meets some evaluation criteria. In this case then this chapter should discuss the choice of criteria, how they were measured, and the results. In the case of experimental projects, this chapter should describe the choice of experimental method and the results of those experiments.
This chapter should also include an analysis of the results, including some consideration of their statistical significance and reliability.
Project Evaluation
This should evaluate the quality of the project as a whole, including a consideration of how well each of the objectives were met. For example:
â�’¢ How effective was the literature review? Is it possible that there were relevant techniques or issues that were ignored?
â�’¢ Were there alternative hypotheses that could have been tested?
â�’¢ For developmental projects, what other evaluation criteria could have been considered?
â�’¢ How complete were the experimental results; how reliable are the conclusions

Conclusions and Recommendations
The conclusions should present the answer to the original research question, along with any other conclusions reached along the way (for example, about the best choice of tools or technologies). There should be no �surprises� in this chapter: each conclusion should have been noted and evidenced elsewhere in the dissertation.
Recommendations should also be included for further research, for any possible practical applications, or any recommendations for future practice.
1.1 Dissertation Layout and Format
Dissertations are required to be written in a standard format, to ensure consistent lengths and to make marking easier. A dissertation template is included on Blackboard to make this process easier. You should use this whenever possible
Layout
Paper size: A4, Typed on one side of the paper only in a 12-point font.
The paper should be of good quality and not be transparent.
Margins: At least 20mm should be left all round and a left-hand margin of 40mm to allow binding.
Spacing: Double or one and a half spacing should be used throughout, except for indented quotations or footnotes, where single spacing is adequate.
Pagination: Pages should be numbered consecutively throughout the dissertation, including preliminaries and appendices; it may be advisable to number the pages only when all the typing has been completed.
Preliminary material
The title page should state:
â�’¢ the full title and sub-title
â�’¢ the full name of the author, including forenames.
â�’¢ the qualification for which the dissertation is submitted.
â�’¢ the name of the institution
â�’¢ the department in which the work was conducted.
â�’¢ the year of submission
The title should describe the subject matter accurately and comprehensively as it may subsequently appear in bibliographies which will be consulted by other research workers.
The declaration provided in the dissertation template should immediately follow the title page. Please make sure you complete the word count.
An abstract of the dissertation, not exceeding 300 words, should then be included. The abstract should occupy one side of one sheet, be clearly typed or printed and headed with the author and title of the dissertation.
The table of contents should immediately follow the abstract and list, with page numbers, all the chapters and subdivisions that are included in the dissertation.
Main text of dissertation
This should be divided into numbered chapters each with a clear title.


Keywords: backtrack 4 tools, MAC spoofing, overloading access point.