Strength of Crowd (SOC)—Defeating a Reactive Jammer in IoT with Decoy Messages

Sciancalepore, Savio; Oligeri, Gabriele; Pietro, Roberto Di

doi:10.3390/s18103492

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“…Compared to the other solutions available in the literature, BitTransfer is characterized by significant energy consumption. For instance, in the recent contribution [29], considering the same hardware platform used for our paper, we experimentally measured overall energy consumption in the range [0.12 − 0.16]% of the battery. In our case, Bit-Transfer requires 1.74% of the available energy.…”

Section: B Discussion and Limitationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The authors in [29] introduced Strength of Crowd (SoC), a distributed protocol that allows evading reactive jamming by transmitting decoy messages, exhausting the jamming resources of the attacker. However, the attacker model assumed in this work can jam only a fraction of the available spectrum.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The operating system selected to run on-board of the OpenMote-b has been the well-known OpenWSN protocol stack, already adopted by some contributions in the literature [29], [43], [44], since it integrates a slotted channel access mechanism and the widely accepted IEEE 802.15.4 standard operating in the Time Synchronized Channel Hopping (TSCH) mode [45].…”

Section: A Implementation Detailsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Bittransfer: Mitigating Reactive Jamming in Electronic Warfare Scenarios

Sciancalepore

Pietro

2019

IEEE Access

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Electronic Warfare (EW) scenarios contemplate powerful and stealthy jamming attacks, able to disrupt any competing wireless communication in the target area. Reactive jamming techniques are especially suitable to this aim. Indeed, by first eavesdropping on the whole radio spectrum used for communications, and then timely injecting random noise as soon as a transmission is detected, reactive jamming represents both an effective and hard-to-detect attack tool. In such a challenging EW scenario, all the solutions currently available in the literature to mitigate reactive jamming require either the deployment of specialized hardware, or the modifications of physical layer protocols-the former solution being expensive, and the latter one usually not viable when considering commercially available wireless devices. In this paper we propose BitTransfer, an anti-jamming protocol enabling wireless communications between neighboring devices even under the above-described stringent requirements and powerful attacker model. BitTransfer embeds information bits in radio activity operations, a 0 being represented by the absence of any radio activity, and a 1 by the reception of a (corrupted) packet at the receiver. To demonstrate its applicability to a wide class of commercial wireless devices, BitTransfer has been implemented using a real constrained hardware platform (the Openmote-b), released as freely available and open-source, and tested using the IEEE 802.15.4 communication technology, adopted within the Bluetooth and Zigbee 3.0 protocol stacks. When under attack by a reactive jammer, BitTransfer can transfer a message of 127 Bit in 11.17 seconds, while competing approaches simply fail. Other than being completely tunable, BitTransfer can also enjoy further improvements by simply increasing the transmission rate of the devices. Finally, its detailed design, open-source availability, robustness, and superior performance when compared against competing solutions, make it a solution of choice in challenging EW scenarios, also paving the way to further research along the highlighted directions.

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Bittransfer: Mitigating Reactive Jamming in Electronic Warfare Scenarios

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Pietro

2019

IEEE Access

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“…The power consumption can be reduced at the node architectural level by choosing the hardware and software. Integrating the System on Chip (SoC) circuit into WSNs is a promising solution to reduce the power consumption by using HW/SW partitioning [85]. So, the most time-consuming function or complex algorithms such as video or image processing are performed with the hardware.…”

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Prospects of Wireless Energy-Aware Sensors for Smart Factories in the Industry 4.0 Era

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Advanced sensors are becoming essential for modern factories, as they contribute by gathering comprehensive data about machines, processes, and human-machine interaction. They play an important role in improving manufacturing performance, in-factory logistics, predictive maintenance, supply chains, and digitalization in general. Wireless sensors and wireless sensor networks (WSNs) provide, in this context, significant advantages as they are flexible and easily deployable. They have reduced installation and maintenance costs and contributed by reducing cables and preinstalled infrastructure, leading to improved reliability. WSNs can be retrofitted in machines to provide direct information from inside the processes. Recent developments have revealed exciting possibilities to enhance energy harvesting (EH) and wireless energy transmission, enabling a reliable use of wireless sensors in smart factories. This review provides an overview of the potential of energy aware WSNs for industrial applications and shows relevant techniques for realizing a sustainable energy supply based on energy harvesting and energy transfer. The focus is on high-performance converter solutions and improvement of frequency, bandwidth, hybridization of the converters, and the newest trends towards flexible converters. We report on possibilities to reduce the energy consumption in wireless communication on the node level and on the network level, enabling boosting network efficiency and operability. Based on the existing technologies, energy aware WSNs can nowadays be realized for many applications in smart factories. It can be expected that they will play a great role in the future as an enabler for digitalization in this decisive economic sector.

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“…Several classes of jammers have been proposed in the scientific literature throughout the last years [87]. Jammers can be constant [88], random [89], deceptive [90], reactive [91], [92], spot [93], sweep [94] and barrage [95], to name a few. The effectiveness of a jammer strictly depends on the communication parameters [96] set by both the transmitter and the receiver [97].…”

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Satellite-Based Communications Security: A Survey of Threats, Solutions, and Research Challenges

Tedeschi¹,

Sciancalepore²,

Pietro³

2021

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Satellite-based Communication (SATCOM) systems are gaining renewed momentum in Industry and Academia, thanks to innovative services introduced by leading tech companies and the promising impact they can deliver towards the global connectivity objective tackled by early 6G initiatives. On the one hand, the emergence of new manufacturing processes and radio technologies promises to reduce service costs while guaranteeing outstanding communication latency, available bandwidth, flexibility, and coverage range. On the other hand, cybersecurity techniques and solutions applied in SATCOM links should be updated to reflect the enormous advancements in attacker capabilities characterizing the last two decades. However, business urgency and opportunities are leading operators towards challenging system trade-offs, leading to an increased attack surface and a general relaxation of the available security services.This paper tackles the cited problems and presents a comprehensive survey on the security threats, solutions, and challenges faced when deploying and operating SATCOM systems. Specifically, we classify the literature on security for SATCOM systems into two main branches, i.e., physical-layer security and cryptography schemes. Then, we further identify specific research domains for each of the identified branches, focusing on dedicated security issues, including, e.g., physical-layer confidentiality, antijamming schemes, anti-spoofing strategies, and quantum-based key distribution schemes. For each of the above domains, we highlight the most essential techniques, peculiarities, advantages, disadvantages, lessons learned, and future directions. Finally, we also identify emerging research topics whose additional investigation by Academia and Industry could further attract researchers and investors, ultimately unleashing the potential behind ubiquitous satellite communications.

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Strength of Crowd (SOC)—Defeating a Reactive Jammer in IoT with Decoy Messages

Cited by 27 publications

References 36 publications

Bittransfer: Mitigating Reactive Jamming in Electronic Warfare Scenarios

Bittransfer: Mitigating Reactive Jamming in Electronic Warfare Scenarios

Prospects of Wireless Energy-Aware Sensors for Smart Factories in the Industry 4.0 Era

Satellite-Based Communications Security: A Survey of Threats, Solutions, and Research Challenges

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