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Mitigation of topological inconsistency attacks in RPL‐based low‐power lossy networks

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  • Anthéa Mayzaud
  • Anuj Sehgal
  • Rémi Badonnel
  • Isabelle Chrisment
  • Jürgen Schönwälder

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The RPL is a routing protocol for low‐power and lossy networks. A malicious node can manipulate header options used by RPL to create topological inconsistencies, thereby causing denial of service attacks, reducing channel availability, increasing control message overhead, and increasing energy consumption at the targeted node and its neighborhood. RPL overcomes these topological inconsistencies via a fixed threshold, upon reaching which all subsequent packets with erroneous header options are ignored. However, this threshold value is arbitrarily chosen, and the performance can be improved by taking into account network characteristics. To address this, we present a mitigation strategy that allows nodes to dynamically adapt against a topological inconsistency attack based on the current network conditions. Results from our experiments show that our approach outperforms the fixed threshold and mitigates these attacks without significant overhead. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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  • Anthéa Mayzaud & Anuj Sehgal & Rémi Badonnel & Isabelle Chrisment & Jürgen Schönwälder, 2015. "Mitigation of topological inconsistency attacks in RPL‐based low‐power lossy networks," International Journal of Network Management, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 25(5), pages 320-339, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:wly:intnem:v:25:y:2015:i:5:p:320-339
    DOI: 10.1002/nem.1898
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    1. Abhishek Verma & Virender Ranga, 2020. "CoSec-RPL: detection of copycat attacks in RPL based 6LoWPANs using outlier analysis," Telecommunication Systems: Modelling, Analysis, Design and Management, Springer, vol. 75(1), pages 43-61, September.
    2. Celso Carvalho & Edjair Mota & Eric Ferraz & Paulo Seixas & Paulo Souza & Vitor Tavares & Walfredo Lucena Filho & David Ferreira & Pietro Manzoni & Carlos Calafate, 2019. "Entropy based routing for mobile, low power and lossy wireless sensors networks," International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks, , vol. 15(7), pages 15501477198, July.

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