Wireless client puzzles in IEEE 802.11 networks
Ivan Martinović, Frank A. Zdarsky, Matthias Wilhelm, Christian Wegmann, Jens Burkhard Schmitt · 2008
Resource-depletion attacks against IEEE 802.11 access points (APs) are commonly executed by flooding APs with fake authentication requests. Such attacks may exhaust an AP's memory resources and result in denied association service, thus enabling more sophisticated impersonation attacks accomplished by rogue APs.