An experimental study of attacks on the availability of Glossy

[Display omitted] •Presentation of novel attacks aiming to break Glossy's constructive interference.•Results showing Glossy’s robustness except for attacks on relay counter.•Discussion of potential security solutions to protect Glossy-based networks. Glossy is a reliable and low latency floodin...

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Published in:Computers & electrical engineering Vol. 41; pp. 115 - 125
Main Authors: Hewage, Kasun, Raza, Shahid, Voigt, Thiemo
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier Ltd 01.01.2015
Subjects:
Availability
Computer information security
Computer Science with specialization in Computer Communication
Construction
Datavetenskap med inriktning mot datorkommunikation
Distributed Communication
Electrical engineering
Glossy
Interference
Network Security
Remote sensors
Security Attacks
Sensor Networks
Wireless networks
Sensor networks
Network security
Glossy
Distributed communication
Security attacks
ISSN:0045-7906, 1879-0755, 1879-0755
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Summary:[Display omitted] •Presentation of novel attacks aiming to break Glossy's constructive interference.•Results showing Glossy’s robustness except for attacks on relay counter.•Discussion of potential security solutions to protect Glossy-based networks. Glossy is a reliable and low latency flooding mechanism designed primarily for distributed communication in wireless sensor networks (WSN). Glossy achieves its superior performance over tree-based wireless sensor networks by exploiting identical concurrent transmissions. WSNs are subject to wireless attacks aimed to disrupt the legitimate network operations. Real-world deployments require security and the current Glossy implementation has no built-in security mechanisms. In this paper, we explore the effectiveness of several attacks that attempt to break constructive interference in Glossy. Our results show that Glossy is quite robust to approaches where attackers do not respect the timing constraints necessary to create constructive interference. Changing the packet content, however, has a severe effect on the packet reception rate that is even more detrimental than other physical layer denial-of-service attacks such as jamming. We also discuss potential countermeasures to address these security threats and vulnerabilities.
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ISSN:0045-7906
1879-0755
1879-0755
DOI:10.1016/j.compeleceng.2014.10.004