Skip to main content
Book cover

Wireless Networks and Security

Issues, Challenges and Research Trends

  • Book
  • © 2013

Overview

  • Recent research in wireless networks and security
  • Provides a broad coverage of wireless security issues including cryptographic coprocessors, encryption, authentication, key management and others
  • Demonstrates vulnerabilities and ways for strengthening security mechanisms and services throughout the layers

Part of the book series: Signals and Communication Technology (SCT)

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this book

eBook USD 129.00
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book USD 169.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info
Hardcover Book USD 169.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Other ways to access

Licence this eBook for your library

Institutional subscriptions

Table of contents (14 chapters)

Keywords

About this book

 “Wireless Networks and Security” provides a broad coverage of wireless security issues including cryptographic coprocessors, encryption, authentication, key management, attacks and countermeasures, secure routing, secure medium access control, intrusion detection, epidemics, security performance analysis, security issues in applications. The contributions identify various vulnerabilities in the physical layer, MAC layer, network layer, transport layer, and application layer, and focus on ways of strengthening security mechanisms and services throughout the layers. This carefully edited monograph is targeting  for researchers, post-graduate students in universities, academics, and industry practitioners or professionals.

 

Reviews

From the reviews:

“This edited collection provides a timely summary of recent research efforts in the wireless networks area, including a broad understanding of the issues and challenges and a discussion of security. … this is a useful work for students and practitioners … .” (Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo, Computing Reviews, September, 2013)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Technology (KUST), Institute of Information Technology, Kohat University of Science and, Kohat, Pakistan

    Shafiullah Khan

  • , Department of Computer Science, International Islamic University Malaysi, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

    Al-Sakib Khan Pathan

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Wireless Networks and Security

  • Book Subtitle: Issues, Challenges and Research Trends

  • Editors: Shafiullah Khan, Al-Sakib Khan Pathan

  • Series Title: Signals and Communication Technology

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-36169-2

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2013

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-642-36168-5Published: 29 January 2013

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-43844-8Published: 01 July 2015

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-36169-2Published: 26 January 2013

  • Series ISSN: 1860-4862

  • Series E-ISSN: 1860-4870

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 512

  • Topics: Communications Engineering, Networks, Systems and Data Security

Publish with us