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

Research Article

WiFiDump - A Novel Architecture for Wireless Network Debugging

  • @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.