IoT-NETZ: Spoofing Attack Mitigation in IoT Network
Hamzeh Mohammadnia · KTH Publication Database DiVA (KTH Royal Institute of Technology) · 2019
The phenomenal growth of the Internet of Things (IoT) and popularity of the mobile stations have rapidly increased the demand of WLAN network (known as IEEE 802.11 and WiFi). WLAN is a low-cost alternative of the cellular network and being an unlicensed spectrum to build the master plan of embedding the Internet in everything-&-anywhere. At the same time, monitoring the number of IoT and WiFi-enabled devices across residential and enterprises is not trivial. Therefore, future WiFi network architecture requires an agile management paradigm to provide internal support and security for WiFi networks. The operation of IoT and mobile device applications relies on scalability and high-performance computing of clouds. Cloud computing has completely centralized the current data center networking architecture and it provides computation-intensive, high-speed network, and realtime responses to the requests of IoT. The IoT-to-cloud communication is the essence of network security concerns and it is in grievous need of constant security improvement along the inter-networking. Based on the number of researches and analysis on generated traffic by IoT, it has been observed there are the significant number of massive spoofing-oriented attacks targeting cloud services are launched from compromised IoT. On the basis of reviewing prior researches on mostly-conducted network attacks by IoT, there is a challenging and common characteristic which has been frequently utilized in the numerous massive Internet attacks, known as spoofing. This work will survey the existing proposed solutions which have been deployed to protect both traditional and softwarized network paradigms. Then, it proposes the approach of this work that enables IoT-hosting networks protected by employing Software-defined Wireless Networking (SDWN) within the proposed model to mitigate spoofing-oriented network attacks. In addition, the proposed solution provides the environmental sustainability feature by saving power consumption in networking devices during network operation. The practical improvement in the proposed model is measured and evaluated within the emulated environment of Mininet-WiFi.