Title :
Droplet: A New Denial-of-Service Attack on Low Power Wireless Sensor Networks
Author :
Zhitao He ; Voigt, Thiemo
Author_Institution :
SICS Swedish ICT, Kista, Sweden
Abstract :
In this paper we present a new kind of Denial-of-Service attack against the PHY layer of low power wireless sensor networks. Overcoming the very limited range of jamming-based attacks, this attack can penetrate deep into a target network with high power efficiency. We term this the Droplet attack, as it attains enormous disruption by dropping small, payload-less frame headers to its victim´s radio receiver, depriving the latter of bandwidth and sleep time. We demonstrate the Droplet attack´s high damage rate to full duty-cycle receivers, and further show that a high frequency version of Droplet can even force nodes running on very low duty-cycle MAC protocols to drop most of their packets.
Keywords :
access protocols; radio receivers; telecommunication security; wireless sensor networks; PHY layer; denial-of-service attack; droplet attack; duty-cycle MAC protocols; duty-cycle receivers; jamming-based attacks; low power wireless sensor networks; payload-less frame headers; power efficiency; target network; victim radio receiver; IEEE 802.15 Standards; Interference; Jamming; Radio transmitters; Receivers; Synchronization; Wireless sensor networks; Denial-of-Service; Low power radios; PHY layer; Wireless sensor networks;
Conference_Titel :
Mobile Ad-Hoc and Sensor Systems (MASS), 2013 IEEE 10th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Hangzhou
DOI :
10.1109/MASS.2013.18