Addressing the DAO Insider Attack in RPL’s Internet of Things Networks

Baraq Ghaleb; Ahmed Al-Dubai; Elias Ekonomou; Mamoun Qasem; Imed Romdhani; Lewis Mackenzie

doi:10.1109/LCOMM.2018.2878151

Addressing the DAO Insider Attack in RPL’s Internet of Things Networks

Baraq Ghaleb, Ahmed Al-Dubai, Elias Ekonomou, Mamoun Qasem, Imed Romdhani, Lewis Mackenzie

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Abstract

In RPL routing protocol, the destination advertisement object (DAO) control messages are announced by the child nodes to their parents to build downward routes. A malicious insider node can exploit this feature to send fake DAOs to its parents periodically, triggering those parents, in turn, to forward the fake messages upward to the root node. In this letter, we show how this behavior can have a detrimental side effect on the performance of the network, increasing power consumption, latency, and reducing reliability. To address this problem, a new scheme is introduced to mitigate significantly the effect of the DAO attack on network performance.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	68-71
Journal	IEEE Communications Letters
Volume	23
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/LCOMM.2018.2878151
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2019

Keywords

Internet of Things
low-power and lossy networks
RPL security
DAO attack

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