Attacking and securing beacon-enabled 802.15.4 networks

Jung, Sang Shin; Valero, Marco; Bourgeois, Anu G.; Beyah, Raheem

doi:10.1007/s11276-014-0855-2

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“…• Track the first packet P 2 after P 1 which satisfies the following conditions (assuming non zero inactive portion): -The packet following P 2 should not be a packet with length 5 on the MAC layer (acknowledgment packet) within "macAcknowledgementWaitDuration" duration. 3 Interarrival time for beacon frame = (inactive duration + time left in the active duration of the preceeding beacon interval after the starting time of the last packet) 4 we consider only networks which utilize acknowledgement packet. However, the proposed algorithm can be extended with minor modifications to acknowledgement free networks.…”

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Energy efficient outsider attacks on IEEE 802.15.4 beacon enabled wireless sensor networks

Kasireddy

Roy

Ganti

2014

2014 Twentieth National Conference on Communications (NCC)

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Wireless sensor networks based on the IEEE 802.15.4 standard have wide applications in office and industrial automation. Most of these networks utilize beacon enabled mode of operation due to the availability of sleep states which can extend the battery life. Wireless sensor nodes have little protection against radio interference and hence very susceptible to jamming. The situation becomes worse if energy-efficient jamming can be achieved by exploiting knowledge of the data link layer. While, encryption might help prevent the jammer from taking actions based on the content of the packets, the arrangement of the packets induced by the nature of the protocol can be exploited. By analyzing the packet interarrival times and lengths of packets, energy-efficient jamming can be performed. In this paper, we propose three jamming attacks based on learning the superframe structure and beacon interval in these networks. The algorithms are described in detail, simulated and the effectiveness and efficiency of the attacks are examined. The result of this paper provides new insights into the superframe structure and security considerations of beacon enabled mode of IEEE 802.15.4 MAC protocol.

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confidence: 99%

“…They provide several jamming techniques that allow the jammer to jam the networks using these MAC protocols in an energy efficient manner. In [4] and [5] insider attacks on beacon enabled networks, in particular on the management of GTS are given. In [6] various attacks on different layers of WSNs are given.…”

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confidence: 99%