Novel Denial-of-Service Attacks Against LoRaWAN on MAC Layer

Document Type

Article

Source of Publication

IEEE Communications Letters

Publication Date

11-1-2023

Abstract

LoRaWAN is widely used in Internet of Things (IoT) applications such as traffic management by providing a long-range wireless network at low energy consumption. However, the Aloha MAC protocol and the duty-cycle limitation bring LoRaWAN the challenge of Denial-of-Service (DoS) attacks. This study focuses on this security issue. Two DoS attacks that aim at the confirmed transmission are proposed by investigating the Medium Access Control (MAC) layer of LoRaWAN. Simulation results show that the proposed methods significantly reduce the packet success rate and network energy efficiency with fewer attackers than the baseline attack, demonstrating the harmfulness of the proposed approaches.

ISSN

1089-7798

Publisher

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

Volume

27

Issue

11

First Page

3123

Last Page

3126

Disciplines

Computer Sciences

Keywords

denial-of-service (DoS) attacks, LoRaWAN, medium access control (MAC) layer, security

Scopus ID

85174820786

Indexed in Scopus

yes

Open Access

no

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