LIDOR: A Lightweight DoS-Resilient Communication Protocol for Safety-Critical IoT Systems

Stute, Milan and Agarwal, Pranay and Kumar, Abhinav and Asadi, Arash and Hollick, Matthias (2020) LIDOR: A Lightweight DoS-Resilient Communication Protocol for Safety-Critical IoT Systems. IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 7 (8). pp. 6802-6816. ISSN 2372-2541

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Abstract

IoT devices penetrate different aspects of our life including critical services, such as health monitoring, public safety, and autonomous driving. Such safety-critical IoT systems often consist of a large number of devices and need to withstand a vast range of known Denial-of-Service (DoS) network attacks to ensure a reliable operation while offering low-latency information dissemination. As the first solution to jointly achieve these goals, we propose LIDOR, a secure and lightweight multihop communication protocol designed to withstand all known variants of packet dropping attacks. Specifically, LIDOR relies on an end-to-end feedback mechanism to detect and react on unreliable links and draws solely on efficient symmetric-key cryptographic mechanisms to protect packets in transit. We show the overhead of LIDOR analytically and provide the proof of convergence for LIDOR which makes LIDOR resilient even to strong and hard-to-detect wormhole-supported grayhole attacks. In addition, we evaluate the performance via testbed experiments. The results indicate that LIDOR improves the reliability under DoS attacks by up to 91% and reduces network overhead by 32% compared to a state-of-the-art benchmark scheme. © 2014 IEEE.

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IITH Creators:

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Kumar, Abhinav	https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6468-7054

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Additional Information:

Manuscript received November 1, 2019; revised March 9, 2020; accepted March 27, 2020. Date of publication April 2, 2020; date of current version August 12, 2020. This work was supported in part by the LOEWE initiative (Hesse, Germany) within the emergenCITY center, in part by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research and the Hessen State Ministry for Higher Education, Research and the Arts within their joint support of the National Research Center for Applied Cybersecurity ATHENE, and in part by the Ministry of Electronics and IT, Government of India, through the Visvesvaraya Ph.D. Scheme for Electronics and IT. (Corresponding author: Milan Stute.) Milan Stute, Arash Asadi, and Matthias Hollick are with the Secure Mobile Networking Lab, Technical University of Darmstadt, 64289 Darmstadt, Germany (e-mail: mstute@seemoo.tu-darmstadt.de; aasadi@seemoo.tu-darmstadt.de; mhollick@seemoo.tu-darmstadt.de).

Uncontrolled Keywords:

Ad hoc networks; communication systems; communications technology; computer networks; Internet; Internet of Things; network security; protocols; routing protocols; wireless mesh networks

Subjects:

Electrical Engineering

Divisions:

Department of Electrical Engineering

Depositing User:

. LibTrainee 2021

Date Deposited:

10 Nov 2022 07:23

Last Modified:

23 Nov 2022 09:47

URI:

http://raiithold.iith.ac.in/id/eprint/11219