Enhancing RPL Resilience Against Routing Layer Insider Attacks

Karel Heurtefeux, Ochirkhand Erdene-Ochir, Nasreen Mohsin, Hamid Menouar
2015 2015 IEEE 29th International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications  
To gather and transmit data, low cost wireless devices are often deployed in open, unattended and possibly hostile environment, making them particularly vulnerable to physical attacks. Resilience is needed to mitigate such inherent vulnerabilities and risks related to security and reliability. In this paper, Routing Protocol for Low-Power and Lossy Networks (RPL) is studied in presence of packet dropping malicious compromised nodes. Random behavior and data replication have been introduced to
more » ... L to enhance its resilience against such insider attacks. The classical RPL and its resilient variants have been analyzed through Cooja simulations and hardware emulation. Resilient techniques introduced to RPL have enhanced significantly the resilience against attacks providing route diversification to exploit the redundant topology created by wireless communications. In particular, the proposed resilient RPL exhibits better performance in terms of delivery ratio (up to 40%), fairness and connectivity while staying energy efficient.
doi:10.1109/aina.2015.271 dblp:conf/aina/HeurtefeuxEMM15 fatcat:a5u3xbbdyvdvjbk57js3ndhdnm