Energy-efficient link-layer jamming attacks against wireless sensor network MAC protocols

Law, Yee Wei; Hoesel, Lodewijk van; Doumen, Jeroen; Hartel, Pieter H.; Havinga, Paul J.M.

doi:10.1145/1102219.1102234

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“…The protocol uses random access to the communication medium, which means that there are no slots or frames to send the data, but these can be added if there is a need [30]. As the sending and receiving nodes are not synchronized, the transmitter has to transmit a preamble that is long enough to be detected by the receiver which only wakes up periodically (LPL -lowpower listening).…”

Section: B B-mac (Berkeley Media Access Control For Low-power Sensormentioning

confidence: 99%

“…If an attacker wants to perform a jamming attack on B-MAC that uses periodic listening cycles, a preamble interval has to be determined. This is known as a statistical jamming attack based on the probability estimation of packet inter-arrival times [30]. If an adversary chooses to guess, more frequent sampling is needed which reduces the efficiency of jammer.…”

Section: B Security and Attacks In B-macmentioning

confidence: 99%

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A Survey of Potential Security Issues in Existing Wireless Sensor Network Protocols

Tomić

McCann

2017

IEEE Internet Things J.

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Abstract-The increasing pervasiveness of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) in diverse application domains including critical infrastructure systems, sets an extremely high security bar in the design of WSN systems to exploit their full benefits, increasing trust while avoiding loss. Nevertheless, a combination of resource restrictions and the physical exposure of sensor devices inevitably cause such networks to be vulnerable to security threats, both external and internal. While several researchers have provided a set of open problems and challenges in WSN security and privacy, there is a gap in the systematic study of the security implications arising from the nature of existing communication protocols in WSNs. Therefore, we have carried out a deep-dive into the main security mechanisms and their effects on the most popular protocols and standards used in WSN deployments i.e. IEEE 802.15.4, B-MAC, 6LoWPAN, RPL, BCP, CTP, and CoAP, where potential security threats and existing countermeasures are discussed at each layer of WSN stack. This work culminates in a deeper analysis of network layer attacks deployed against the RPL routing protocol. We quantify the impact of individual attacks on the performance of a network using the Cooja network simulator. Finally, we discuss new research opportunities in network layer security and how to use Cooja as a benchmark for developing new defenses for WSN systems.

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Section: B B-mac (Berkeley Media Access Control For Low-power Sensormentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: B Security and Attacks In B-macmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Survey of Potential Security Issues in Existing Wireless Sensor Network Protocols

Tomić

McCann

2017

IEEE Internet Things J.

227

115

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“…Due to the topic's importance, wireless network jamming has been extensively studied in the applied research fields [1, 5, 6, 22, 26-28, 30, 31, 39, 41-43], both from the attacker's perspective [6,26,27,43] as well as from the defender's perspective [1,5,6,27,28,30,41,43]-also in multi-hop settings (e.g. [21,32,[45][46][47]).…”

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confidence: 99%

Competitive throughput in multi-hop wireless networks despite adaptive jamming

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This article presents a simple local medium access control protocol, called Jade, for multi-hop wireless networks with a single channel that is provably robust against adaptive adversarial jamming. The wireless network is modeled as a unit disk graph on a set of nodes distributed arbitrarily in the plane. In addition to these nodes, there are adversarial jammers that know the protocol and its entire history and that are allowed to jam the wireless channel at any node for an arbitrary (1 − )-fraction of the time steps, where 0 < < 1 is an arbitrary constant. We assume that nodes can perform collision detection (unless they are transmitting themselves), but that they cannot distinguish between jammed transmissions and collisions of regular messages. Nevertheless, we show that Jade achieves an asymptotically optimal throughput by efficiently exploiting the unpredictable time periods in which the medium is available.

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“…Different MAC protocols were defined for WSN because of its application dependency. MAC protocols have to compensate between providing energy efficient consumption with the availability of decent throughput to make the system dependable (Van Hoesel, Havigna, 2004;Law et al, 2005) . An essential characteristic of wireless communication is that it provides an inherently shared medium.…”

Section: Mac Protocols Effect In Wsnsmentioning

confidence: 99%