WiFiDump - A Novel Architecture for Wireless Network Debugging

Abhijit Bagri; Mohit Mundhra; Abhinav  Pathak; Bhaskaran Raman

1st International IEEE Workshop on WIreless Systems: Advanced Research and Development

Research Article

WiFiDump - A Novel Architecture for Wireless Network Debugging

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@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1109/COMSWA.2007.382463,
    author={ Abhijit Bagri and Mohit Mundhra and Abhinav  Pathak and Bhaskaran Raman},
    title={WiFiDump - A Novel Architecture for Wireless Network Debugging},
    proceedings={1st International IEEE Workshop on WIreless Systems: Advanced Research and Development},
    publisher={IEEE},
    proceedings_a={WISARD},
    year={2007},
    month={7},
    keywords={WiFiDump  filtering  hostap  ioctl  libpcap  tcpdump},
    doi={10.1109/COMSWA.2007.382463}
}

Abhijit Bagri
Mohit Mundhra
Abhinav Pathak
Bhaskaran Raman
Year: 2007
WiFiDump - A Novel Architecture for Wireless Network Debugging
WISARD
IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/COMSWA.2007.382463

Abhijit Bagri¹^,*, Mohit Mundhra¹^,*, Abhinav Pathak¹^,*, Bhaskaran Raman¹^,*

1: Dept. of Computer Science and Engg. Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur Kanpur, India 208016

*Contact email: abagri@cse.iitk.ac.in, mundhra@cse.iitk.ac.in, pathaka@purdue.edu, braman@cse.iitk.ac.in

Abstract

802.11 usage has exploded and broken all barriers for which it was originally proposed. This has resulted in research for its non-legacy usages. Such usages require study of packets with low level details such as signal strength, rate and frame control parameters. We provide a novel architecture called WiFiDump which can provide such low level details from network driver to a user space process. We also provide an implementation and evaluation of the proposed architecture for 802.11b networks on systems running prism2 chipset based cards. Further, the entire package has been incorporated on Linux with the popular packet capturing and filtering library libpcap and the standard tool -tcpdump.

Keywords: WiFiDump filtering hostap ioctl libpcap tcpdump

Published: 2007-07-09
Publisher: IEEE
Modified: 2011-07-27

: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/COMSWA.2007.382463