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<p>Routing protocol for low power and lossy networks (RPL) has been proposed for power, memory, and processing constrained devices. Owing to their constrained, RPL-based networks are exposed to a wide range of security attacks that mainly include control message tampering. In this paper we propose and study a modified version number attack, based on flooding the network by falsified incremented version numbers. The obtained results show that the modified attack led to an immense increase in the overhead, 1426%, compared with the attack-free case, and an increase of 182 % in the total energy consumption. When it comes to PDR a degradation to 4.7% has been recorded, affecting the reliability of the network. On the other hand, the latency also showed an increase from 0.24 s in the attack-free case to 0.89 s, which is mainly due to the high congestion created by the attack.</p>
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Routing protocol for low power and lossy networks (RPL) has been proposed for power, memory, and processing constrained devices. Owing to their constrained, RPL-based networks are exposed to a wide range of security attacks that mainly include control message tampering. In this paper we propose and study a modified version number attack, based on flooding the network by falsified incremented version numbers. The obtained results show that the modified attack led to an immense increase in the overhead, 1426%, compared with the attack-free case, and an increase of 182 % in the total energy consumption. When it comes to PDR a degradation to 4.7% has been recorded, affecting the reliability of the network. On the other hand, the latency also showed an increase from 0.24 s in the attack-free case to 0.89 s, which is mainly due to the high congestion created by the attack.

A potential flooding version number attack against RPL based IOT networks

Centre Universitaire Nour Bachir El-Bayadh

Journal of Electrical Engineering

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Routing protocol for low power and lossy networks (RPL) has been proposed for power, memory, and processing constrained devices. Owing to their constrained,...

A potential flooding version number attack against RPL based IOT networks

Published Online: Sep 22, 2022

Page range: 267 - 275

Received: Jul 28, 2022

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jee-2022-0035

Keywords
RPL, security, version number, flooding, Cooja

© 2022 Mehdi Rouissat et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

A potential flooding version number attack against RPL based IOT networks

Published Online: Sep 22, 2022

Page range: 267 - 275

Received: Jul 28, 2022

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jee-2022-0035

KeywordsRPL, security, version number, flooding, Cooja

© 2022 Mehdi Rouissat et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Keywords
RPL, security, version number, flooding, Cooja