Security analysis survey and framework design for IP connected LoWPANs

IEEE 802.15.4 standard for low power wireless personal area networks (LoWPANs) is emerging as a promising technology to bring envisioned ubiquitous paragon, into realization. Considerable efforts are being carried on to integrate LoWPANs with other wired and wireless IP networks, in order to make use of pervasive nature and existing infrastructure associated with IP technologies. Designing a security solution becomes a challenging task as this involves threats from wireless domain of resource constrained devices as well as from extremely mature IP domain. In this paper we have i) identified security threats and requirements for LoWPANs ii) analyzed current security solutions and identified their shortcomings, iii) proposed a generic security framework that can be modified according to application requirements to provide desired level of security. We have also given example implementation scenario of our proposed framework for resource and security critical applications.