Paper Info
Title
Introducing Network Coding to RPL: The Chained Secure Mode (CSM)
Abstract
The current standard of Routing Protocol for Low Power and Lossy Networks (RPL) incorporates three modes of security: the Unsecured Mode (UM), Preinstalled Secure Mode (PSM), and the Authenticated Secure Mode (ASM). While the PSM and ASM are intended to protect against external routing attacks and some replay attacks (through an optional replay protection mechanism), recent research showed that RPL in PSM is still vulnerable to many routing attacks, both internal and external. In this paper, we propose a novel secure mode for RPL, the Chained Secure Mode (CSM), based on the concept of intra-flow Network Coding. The main goal of CSM is to enhance RPL's resilience against replay attacks, with the ability to mitigate some of them. The security and performance of a proof-of-concept prototype of CSM were evaluated and compared against RPL in UM and PSM (with and without the optional replay protection) in the presence of Neighbor attack as an example. It showed that CSM has better performance and more enhanced security compared to both the UM and PSM with the replay protection. On the other hand, it showed a need for a proper recovery mechanism for the case of losing a control message.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1109/NCA51143.2020.9306744
2020 IEEE 19th International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications (NCA)
Keywords
DocType
ISSN
Chained Secure Mode,CSM,Routing Protocol,UM,PSM,Authenticated Secure Mode,ASM,external routing attacks,replay attacks,optional replay protection mechanism,novel secure mode,intra-flow Network Coding,RPL's resilience,Neighbor attack,enhanced security
Conference
2643-7910
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-7281-8327-5
1
0.34
References 
Authors
0
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Raoof Ahmed110.34
Chung-Horng Lung268780.56
Ashraf Matrawy314626.98