Security considerations for IEEE 802.15.4 networks

Sastry, Naveen; Wagner, David

doi:10.1145/1023646.1023654

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“…The first version of the 802.15.4 specification was written in 2003 and had significant security flaws that are described extensively in [Sastry and Wagner 2004]. The most significant issues identified in [Sastry and Wagner 2004] were related to the use of AES-CTR mode that allowed an adversary to perform a DoS attack to effectively prevent a node from receiving packets.…”

Section: A36 Security Concerns Related To Ieee 802154mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The most significant issues identified in [Sastry and Wagner 2004] were related to the use of AES-CTR mode that allowed an adversary to perform a DoS attack to effectively prevent a node from receiving packets. There were also significant issues with the access control list table that controlled how a unit performed outbound encryption and inbound decryption.…”

Section: A36 Security Concerns Related To Ieee 802154mentioning

confidence: 99%

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A Survey of Wireless Communications for the Electric Power System

Akyol¹,

Kirkham²,

Clements³

et al. 2010

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Executive SummaryA key mission of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability (OE) is conducting research and development to enhance the security and reliability of the nation's energy infrastructure. Improving the security of control systems, which enable the automated control of our energy production and distribution, is critical for protecting the energy infrastructure and the integral function that it serves. The DOE-OE Control Systems Security Program is actively pursuing advanced security solutions for control systems.The focus of this report is analyzing how, where, and what type of wireless communications are suitable for deployment in the electric power system and to inform implementers of their options in wireless technologies. The discussions in this report are applicable to enhancing both the communications infrastructure of the current electric power system and new smart system deployments.The work described in this report includes a survey of the following wireless technologies: In this document, we provide a concise summary of the technical underpinnings of each wireless technology. We also outline the feature set and the strengths and weaknesses of each technology. Our intent is to provide enough detail to our readers such that when considering wireless for a particular application, they will know enough to ask the right questions to get the features and capabilities desired.For obtaining data communications coverage quickly and inexpensively over a large geographic area, both WiMAX and 3G/4G cellular technologies should be considered. WiMAX at the present holds a bandwidth and latency advantage over 3G cellular communications; however, with the imminent LTE deployment from multiple carriers, we believe this advantage will be short-lived. Unlike WiMAX deployments, LTE will mostly reuse existing cellular networks and should be a straightforward evolution of the 3G cellular networks. Both of these technologies operate over licensed spectrum and therefore should be protected against unintended interference. In terms of scalability, we know that the cellular networks are capable of accommodating hundreds of millions of subscribers while providing both voice and data communications. WiMAX networks have been deployed to provide wireless local loop service successfully. However, presently, WiMAX networks only support a small fraction of users compared to 3G cellular networks. Whether using WiMAX or 3G/4G cellular, we recommend a combination of application-level security and virtual private networking (VPN) for transporting electric power system information over these public networks.For creating a wireless sensor network for both data gathering and command/control applications, there are three alternatives, all based on the IEEE 802.15.4 protocol stack: ZigBee, WirelessHART, and ISA100.11a. We expect ZigBee to be a common choice for electric power system networking within the iv home. While there are legitimate concerns for the security properties of ZigBee ...

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Section: A36 Security Concerns Related To Ieee 802154mentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: A36 Security Concerns Related To Ieee 802154mentioning

confidence: 99%

A Survey of Wireless Communications for the Electric Power System

Akyol¹,

Kirkham²,

Clements³

et al. 2010

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“…Device B sends a Message requesting an address for each of the modules connected 10 it. The first four are announced as switches (so the received address will be the one of the module they should contra I) and the other four as simple appliances, which will only answer to ON, OFF and ALL UNITS OFF commands.…”

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“…Also, sinee security is a key coneem, speeially in wireless networks where physieal aeeess is very hard to forbid, data eneryption is a must [10]. The next logical step will be to bring the same eneryption tools ZigBee uses to Hybrid networks.…”

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Adding functionality to X10 networks with 802.15.4. Using 802.15.4 to communicate and add functionality to X10 wired networks

2008

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Abstract. Although several newer technologies ex ist in the domotics market, one of the oldest remains extremely popular. Despite of its very Iimited functionality and performance, X I 0 is still a very common technology to manage simple Horne Networks. Even if other wired solutions such as KNX/EIB or LonWorks out perform XIO in every single aspect, they might still be a bit of an overkill when addressing simple needs in a modest Horne Network. However, XIO lacks support for wireless networks that could add a lot of functionality to its wired network. A good example would be how sensor networks could communicate with already existing XIO modules to allow full horne automation in, for example, light and shutter contra I. This paper will focus on the use of802.15.4 to add functionaIity to simple XIO networks, in particular how 802.15.4 could allow the use ofremote controls (or switches) acting over regular XIO modules, and how XIO switches can act over wireless modules using 802.15.4 as the transport layer. We will also see how 802.15.4 doesn't add complexity in the deployment and management of XIO Horne Networks, which is one of the reasons such an old technology remains popular.

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“…A proof-of-concept implementation is the TinySec [4] project. Hardware-based SKE is also provided in nodes with radio chips conforming to the 802.15.4 standard [3], although not all the security suites used by the standard are actually secure [5].…”

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On the Security of Wireless Sensor Networks

Román

Zhou

López

2005

Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2005

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Abstract. Wireless Sensor Networks are extremely vulnerable against any kind of internal or external attacks, due to several factors such as resource-constrained nodes and lack of tamper-resistant packages. As a result, security must be an important factor to have in mind when designing the infrastructure and protocols of sensor networks. In this paper we survey the "state-of-the-art" security issues in sensor networks and highlight the open areas of research.

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Security considerations for IEEE 802.15.4 networks

Cited by 249 publications

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A Survey of Wireless Communications for the Electric Power System

A Survey of Wireless Communications for the Electric Power System

Adding functionality to X10 networks with 802.15.4. Using 802.15.4 to communicate and add functionality to X10 wired networks

On the Security of Wireless Sensor Networks

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