Paper Info
Title
Authenticating the Sector Sweep to Protect Against Beam-Stealing Attacks in IEEE 802.11ad Networks.
Abstract
Millimeter-wave communication systems use steerable antennas with directional beams to overcome high attenuation. Transceivers mutually train their beams to provide strong gains in the desired direction. Unfortunately, state-of-the-art beam-training protocols, such as the IEEE 802.11ad sector sweep, do not protect against malicious behavior. As revealed recently, attackers can inject forged feedback into the sector sweep to cause devices to steer their beams to other than the indented directions. To protect against this kind of beam-stealing, we propose a sector sweep with authentication (SSA) that extends the prevalent sector sweep with an authentication scheme. Doing so, we ensure that devices only accept the feedback from their intended peers. A combination of simulations in ns-3 and measurements on off-the-shelf devices reveals that the performance overhead of SSA is only 7.3% in comparison to the original sector sweep.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1145/3264492.3264494
MobiCom '18: The 24th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking New Delhi India October, 2018
DocType
ISBN
Citations 
Conference
978-1-4503-5928-3
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
7
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Daniel Steinmetzer1698.50
Saad Ahmad220.71
Nikolaos Anagnostopoulos3229.61
Matthias Hollick475097.29
Stefan Katzenbeisser51844143.68