AN ANALYTICAL APPROACH TO REAL-TIME MISBEHAVIOR DETECTION IN IEEE 802.11 WIRELESS NETWORKS Chen, Ying It is easy for the malicious nodes to take advantage of CSMA/CA based wireless protocols to gain unfair larger share of the network throughput because of the distributed nature of the IEEE 802.11 distributed coordination function (DCF). The backoff misbehavior will happen when one node deliberately chooses smaller backoff parameters. This paper adopts a promising non-parametric cumulative sum test (CUSUM) based scheme to quickly find abrupt changes in a process without prior knowledge of the statistics of the change occurrences. According to a Markov chain based analytical model, we can systematically study the real-time misbehavior detection results from CUSUM based method, thus quantitatively computer the system configuration parameters for guaranteed performance in terms of average false positive rate, average detection delay, and missed detection ratio. M.S. in Computer Engineering, July 2011 Cheng, Yu 2011-07 2011-07 Thesis application/pdf islandora:9034 http://hdl.handle.net/10560/2550 ECE / Electrical and Computer Engineering Illinois Institute of Technology en In Copyright http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/ Restricted Access