Characterizing Data Streams Over IEEE 802.11b AD-HOC Wireless Networks

Abstract

Soon, advancements in data encryption technology will make real-time decryption of the contents of network packets virtually impossible. This research anticipates this development and extracts useful information based on packet level characteristics. Distinguishing characteristics from e-mail, HTTP, print, and FTP applications are identified and analyzed. The analysis of collected data from an ad-hoc wireless network reveals that distinguishing characteristics of network traffic do indeed exist. These characteristics include packet size, packet frequency, inter-packet correlation, and channel utilization. Without knowing the contents of packets or the direction of the traffic flow, the applications accessing the wireless network can be determined.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 2003
Accession Number
ADA415380

Entities

People

  • John T. Wagnon

Organizations

  • Air Force Institute of Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Application Protocols
  • Computer Networks
  • Computers
  • Cryptography
  • Data Mining
  • Electronic Mail
  • Human-Machine Interaction
  • Information Science
  • Internet
  • Machine Learning
  • Networks
  • Neural Networks
  • Operating Systems
  • Pattern Recognition
  • Web Browsers
  • Wireless Networks

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Computer Networking
  • Systems Analysis and Design