Abstract
The routing protocol for low-power and lossy networks (RPL) is an IPv6-based routing protocol optimised for internet of things (IoT) environments. However, it is susceptible to malicious packet dropping attacks. If a node with a lower rank that is closer to the root node attempts a malicious packet dropping, it may disrupt basic data transmission or even the entire IoT application service. In this paper, we present a novel detection method for malicious packet dropping attacks against RPL-based networks. The proposed method is based on the anomaly intrusion detection system and detects malicious packet dropping in the presence of normal packet losses. We evaluate the performance of the method on Contiki’s network simulator, Cooja. The evaluation results show that the method has good performance in detecting malicious packet dropping attacks. In every case, the successful detection rate is greater than 94% and the false alarm rate is less than 3%.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 133-141 |
| Number of pages | 9 |
| Journal | International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing |
| Volume | 31 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2019 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:This work was partly supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF-2016-R1C1B2011095, NRF-2015-R1A2A2A01004792) and also partly supported by the MSIT (Ministry of Science and ICT), Korea, under the ITRC (Information Technology Research Center) support program (IITP-2017-2016-0-00304) supervised by the IITP (Institute for Information and communications Technology Promotion).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd.
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Software
- Hardware and Architecture
- Computer Networks and Communications