Effect of DIS Attack on 6TiSCH Network Formation

The 6TiSCH standard provides minimum latency and reliability in mission-critical IoT applications. To optimize resource allocation during 6TiSCH network formation, IETF released the 6TiSCH minimal configuration (6TiSCH-MC) standard. 6TiSCH-MC considered IETF's IPv6 Routing Protocol for Low powe...

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Published in:IEEE communications letters Vol. 26; no. 5; pp. 1190 - 1193
Main Authors: Kalita, Alakesh, Brighente, Alessandro, Khatua, Manas, Conti, Mauro
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: New York IEEE 01.05.2022
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subjects:
6TiSCH
DIS attack
Energy consumption
Joining processes
Multicast algorithms
Network formation
Network latency
Network reliability
Nodes
Resource allocation
Routing
Routing protocols
RPL attack
Synchronization
ISSN:1089-7798, 1558-2558
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Summary:The 6TiSCH standard provides minimum latency and reliability in mission-critical IoT applications. To optimize resource allocation during 6TiSCH network formation, IETF released the 6TiSCH minimal configuration (6TiSCH-MC) standard. 6TiSCH-MC considered IETF's IPv6 Routing Protocol for Low power and Lossy network (RPL) as a routing protocol for both upward and downward routing. In RPL, new joining nodes or joined nodes transmit DODAG Information Solicitation (DIS) requests to get routing information from the network. However, we observe that malicious node(s) can severely affect 6TiSCH networks by sending multiple DIS requests. In this letter, we show and experimentally evaluate on real devices the impact of the DIS attack during 6TiSCH networks formation. We show that the attacker does not need expensive resources or access to the network's sensitive information to execute the DIS attack . Our testbed experiments show that the DIS attack significantly degrades the nodes' joining time and energy consumption, increasing them by 34% and 16%, respectively, compared to normal functioning during 6TiSCH network formation.
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ISSN:1089-7798
1558-2558
DOI:10.1109/LCOMM.2022.3155992