International Journal of Advances in Engineering & Scientific Research

International Journal of Advances in Engineering & Scientific Research

Print ISSN : 2349 –4824

Online ISSN : 2349 –3607

Frequency : Continuous

Current Issue : Volume 1 , Issue 5
2014

A STUDY OF DIFFERENT TYPES OF ATTACKS ON WIMAX NETWORKS

Ms. Seema, **Nandita Goyal

*Department of Computer Engineering, Yadavindra College of Engineering,  Punjabi University Guru Kashi Campus, Talwandi Sabo (Bathinda, Punjab, India),      **Research Scholar - M. Tech., Department of Computer Engineering,  Yadavindra College of Engineering, Punjabi University Guru Kashi Campus,  Talwandi Sabo (Bathinda, Punjab, India) nandita.bfgi@gmail.com

DOI : Page No : 118-128

Published Online : 2014-09-30

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Abstract

                             Wimax is one of the fast growing technologies in the world as compared to other wireless networks. IEEE has defined standard IEEE 802.16 for Wimax. Wimax is growing rapidly due to services it provides and long range accessibility, but still Wimax is facing a lot of security issues and threats like jamming , DDOS , Rogue Base station attack, Reply Attack and so on. Wimax furnish different security mechanism for unauthorized access, Encryption, Authentication etc. and several security architecture , mechanism areproposed. But still Wimax is under attack like Rogue Base station Attack and Reply Attack. In this paper the author has tried to analyze all those attacks in order to develop the security strategies in the future research work.

Keywords: IEEE 802.16, WiMAX, wireless network, threat analysis, vulnerabilities analysis, security, network security,