The impact of copycat attack on RPL based 6LoWPAN networks in Internet of Things
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The impact of copycat attack on RPL based 6LoWPAN networks in Internet of Things Abhishek Verma1,2
· Virender Ranga2
Received: 15 June 2020 / Accepted: 20 October 2020 © Springer-Verlag GmbH Austria, part of Springer Nature 2020
Abstract IPv6 Routing Protocol for Low-Power and Lossy Networks (RPL) is the standard network layer protocol for achieving efficient routing in IPv6 over Low-Power Wireless Personal Area Networks (6LoWPAN). Resource-constrained and non-tamper resistant nature of smart sensor nodes makes RPL protocol susceptible to different threats. An attacker may use insider or outsider attack strategy to perform Denial-of-Service (DoS) attacks against RPL based networks. Security and Privacy risks associated with RPL protocol may limit its global adoption and worldwide acceptance. A proper investigation of RPL specific attacks and their impacts on an underlying network needs to be done. In this paper, we present and investigate one of the catastrophic attacks named as a copycat attack, a type of replay based DoS attack against the RPL protocol. An in-depth experimental study for analyzing the impacts of the copycat attack on RPL has been done. The experimental results show that the copycat attack can significantly degrade network performance in terms of packet delivery ratio, average end-to-end delay, and average power consumption. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first paper that extensively studies the impact of RPL specific replay mechanism based DoS attack on 6LoWPAN networks. Keywords Internet of Things · RPL · 6LoWPAN · LLN · Routing · Copycat attack Mathematics Subject Classification 68M12 · 68M18 · 68M25
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Abhishek Verma [email protected] Virender Ranga [email protected]
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Department of Computer Engineering and Applications, Institute of Engineering and Technology, GLA University, Mathura, India
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Department of Computer Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra, Haryana, India
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1 Introduction Drastic growth in the development of Internet-based technologies has been observed in recent decades. With the start of the era when huge sized computers required too much of human intervention to the era where small-sized smart devices that operate without any human intervention show that there has been a significant development in computer and Internet-based technologies. In recent years, a new networking paradigm termed as the Internet of Things (IoT) [1–4] has evolved. IoT is currently seen as a fast-evolving networking paradigm that consists of smart devices that communicate to control the physical surroundings. Ericcson is expecting 3.5 Billion cellular IoT connections by 2023 and Global Data forecasts the global market for IoT technology to reach $ 318 Billion by 2023 [5]. A broad range of applications is being developed worldwide to make human life safer and comfortable, e.g., e-health, smart home, smart grid, and smart city. Such applications are changing human lives and making it easier to live. A drastic increase in the num
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