The Flooding Attack in Low Power and Lossy Networks: A Case Study
Nguyễn Văn Tánh, Tri Minh Ngo, Tuyen Nguyen, Duc Tran, Hai Anh Tran, Tung Bui · 2018
Routing Protocol for Low Power and Lossy Networks (RPL) has been specially designed to support the interconnection between resource-constrained devices. It has been well-known that the RPL is exposed to various internal DoS attacks. One of the most effective attacks seems to be the flooding. This paper assesses the impact that the flooding attack has on the RPL network. This attack is observed to decrease the packet delivery rate, while increasing the end-to-end packet delay. We also investigate the overhearing solution and show that such mechanism can be used as a primary indicator to detect and eliminate the flooding attack from the network.