DoS analysis of reservation based MAC protocols

Negi, Rohit; Rajeswaran, A.

doi:10.1109/icc.2005.1495094

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“…Analyzing the DoS impact on specific parts of the networking infrastructure, e.g., base station and a core network server functionality, can also identify the bottleneck vulnerabilities of the service provider infrastructure. Furthermore, there can be other threat impact metrics, including the wireless channel/mediumaccess-control resources (between the user and the base station) [8,[17][18][19]23], host-based networking resources (similar to a TCP SYN Flood attacking the server connection table) [7,15,18,25], and the power resource (especially useful if considering a flying base station to provide emergency networking or futuregeneration networking with greater device/rate requirements for connectivity services) [10,12,13].…”

Section: Future Work and Potential Countermeasure Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In wireless and mobile security, previous research studied the control communication injection threats targeting the victim's availability. These research studies defended against DoS threats based on jamming the control communication channel itself because the control communication channel is publicly known [6,9,16], injecting false information on the wireless-channel-setting medium access control (MAC) communications for DoS [8,19], and injecting false information on the MAC feedback [23]. While our threat can classify as false/bogus control communication injection (more specifically, false requests for the initial channel requests), our work focuses on the emerging 5G networking as opposed to the more general wireless networking.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Towards Securing Availability in 5G: Analyzing the Injection Attack Impact on Core Network

Raavi

Wuthier

Sarker

et al. 2022

Silicon Valley Cybersecurity Conference

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Abstract5G technology for mobile networking involves control communications to set up the radio channels and the authentication and security credentials. The control communications preceding the authentication and subscription verification remain vulnerable against the communication injection threats. We study the injection threats on control communications in 5G New Radio standard in 3GPP. From our 5G client-based implementation and experimentation against real-world networking, we analyze and measure the threat impact against the 5G service provider infrastructure of the core network. To secure 5G networking, our paper discusses about future research directions for increasing the understanding of such vulnerability/threat and for building greater security and availability for 5G networking against such wireless injection threats.

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Section: Future Work and Potential Countermeasure Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Towards Securing Availability in 5G: Analyzing the Injection Attack Impact on Core Network

Raavi

Wuthier

Sarker

et al. 2022

Silicon Valley Cybersecurity Conference

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“…The research efforts on the topic of wireless MAC security have, so far, remained limited to addressing the concomitant threats in isolation. For instance, from the existing literature, studies undertaken so far focus on following issues: Denial of Service (DoS) attacks to jam the system [24], [25], [26], [27], [28], [29]; transmitting bogus requests to the reserve channels [30], [31], [32], [33]; falsifying information at the communication feedback point(s) [34]; sleeping-based MAC [35], [36], [37], [38] that is vulnerable especially in case an attacker knows the MAC layer information [39]; and This section presents a literature review that comprises of three main subsections: the first subsection explains security schemes in FANETs, the second subsection describes security schemes at MAC layer, and the third subsection presents access control and key-agreement schemes.…”

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An Efficient and Secure Certificate-Based Access Control and Key Agreement Scheme for Flying Ad-Hoc Networks

Khan¹,

Ullah

Kumar

et al. 2021

IEEE Trans. Veh. Technol.

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The evolution of Flying Ad-hoc Networks (FANETs) marks the paradigm shift from a single large drone to multiple small drones linked together in an ad-hoc fashion. To maintain the Quality of Service (QoS) in the multi-hop networking schema, FANETs utilize the available resources efficiently. However, due to open wireless boundary and high mobility of the drones, the FANETs are vulnerable to malicious nodes that can penetrate the network and, thus, pose serious security threats, particularly at the Medium Access Control (MAC) layer. Such susceptibility compromises the network security and privacy and harms the information exchange operation within the network. The attacker can either transmit a large number of reservation requests to waste the bandwidth, listen to the control messages, conduct power-efficient jamming or falsify the information to manipulate the network control. Therefore, secure access control and a key agreement mechanism are required. The mechanism must utilize the two phases, i.e., node authentication and key agreement, to counter the aforementioned attacks. Our contribution, in this paper, is a certificate-based access control and key agreement scheme, which is based on the technique of Hyperelliptic Curve Cryptography (HECC) and employs a collision-resistant one-way cryptographic hash function. In order to assess the viability and performance of the proposed scheme, we analyze it using formal security analysis techniques, such as the Real-Or-Random (ROR) model and Automated Validation of Internet Security Protocols and Applications (AVISPA) tool. The scheme is also evaluated using the informal security analysis technique, or the nonmathematical approach. The results obtained from both analyses affirm the superiority of our proposed scheme.

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“…However, the model does not specify prevention of DoS attacks based on the contention-free control frames. The NAV validation schemes have also been discussed in [8,9]. DoS attack detection schemes have been proposed in [10][11][12]; however, they are only capable in detecting the attacks and not in preventing them.…”

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A new security model to prevent denial‐of‐service attacks and violation of availability in wireless networks

Mina

Ghani

Subramaniam

2011

Int J Communication

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Wireless networks are deployed in many critical areas, such as health care centers, hospitals, police departments, and airports. In these areas, communication through the networks plays a vital role, and real-time connectivity along with constant availability of the networks is highly important. However, one of the most serious threats against the networks availability is the denial-of-service attacks. In wireless networks, clear text form of control frames is a security flaw that can be exploited by the attackers to bring the wireless networks to a complete halt. To prevent the denial-of-service attacks against the wireless networks, we propose two distinct security models. The models are capable of preventing the attacks by detecting and discarding the forgery control frames belonging to the attackers. The models are implemented and evaluated under various experiments and trials. The results have proved that the proposed models significantly improve the security performance of the wireless networks. This gives advantage of safe communication that can substantially enhance the network availability while maintaining the quality of the network performance. Copyright

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DoS analysis of reservation based MAC protocols

Cited by 30 publications

References 5 publications

Towards Securing Availability in 5G: Analyzing the Injection Attack Impact on Core Network

Towards Securing Availability in 5G: Analyzing the Injection Attack Impact on Core Network

An Efficient and Secure Certificate-Based Access Control and Key Agreement Scheme for Flying Ad-Hoc Networks

A new security model to prevent denial‐of‐service attacks and violation of availability in wireless networks

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