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IoT Nodes Authentication and ID Spoofing Detection Based on Joint Use of Physical Layer Security and Machine Learning

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  • Dania Marabissi

    (Department of Information Engineering, University of Florence, 50121 Firenze, Italy
    Current address: Department of Information Engineering, University of Florence, Via di Santa Marta 3, 50139 Florence, Italy.
    These authors contributed equally to this work.)

  • Lorenzo Mucchi

    (Department of Information Engineering, University of Florence, 50121 Firenze, Italy
    Current address: Department of Information Engineering, University of Florence, Via di Santa Marta 3, 50139 Florence, Italy.
    These authors contributed equally to this work.)

  • Andrea Stomaci

    (Department of Information Engineering, University of Florence, 50121 Firenze, Italy
    Current address: Department of Information Engineering, University of Florence, Via di Santa Marta 3, 50139 Florence, Italy.
    These authors contributed equally to this work.)

Abstract

The wide variety of services and applications that shall be supported by future wireless systems will lead to a high amount of sensitive data exchanged via radio, thus introducing a significant challenge for security. Moreover, in new networking paradigms, such as the Internet of Things, traditional methods of security may be difficult to implement due to the radical change of requirements and constraints. In such contexts, physical layer security is a promising additional means to realize communication security with low complexity. In particular, this paper focuses on node authentication and spoofing detection in an actual wireless sensor network (WSN), where multiple nodes communicate with a sink node. Nodes are in fixed positions, but the communication channels varies due to the scatterers’ movement. In the proposed security framework, the sink node is able to perform a continuous authentication of nodes during communication based on wireless fingerprinting. In particular, a machine learning approach is used for authorized nodes classification by means of the identification of specific attributes of their wireless channel. Then classification results are compared with the node ID in order to detect if the message has been generated by a node other than its claimed source. Finally, in order to increase the spoofing detection performance in small networks, the use of low-complexity sentinel nodes is proposed here. Results show the good performance of the proposed method that is suitable for actual implementation in a WSN.

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  • Dania Marabissi & Lorenzo Mucchi & Andrea Stomaci, 2022. "IoT Nodes Authentication and ID Spoofing Detection Based on Joint Use of Physical Layer Security and Machine Learning," Future Internet, MDPI, vol. 14(2), pages 1-21, February.
  • Handle: RePEc:gam:jftint:v:14:y:2022:i:2:p:61-:d:751590
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