Comparative Analysis of QoS Degradation in IoT Networks Caused by Hybrid Rank Attacks
Mohamed Achraf Boukhobza, Mehdi Rouissat, Mohammed Belkheir, Allel Mokaddem, Pascal Lorenz · Mikrotalasna revija · 2025
The Internet of Things (IoT) is a transformative technology applied across diverse domains, including manufacturing, environmental monitoring, home automation, and healthcare.It enables seamless interaction and data exchange between people, machines, and billions of interconnected devices, such as sensors, actuators, and services.Despite its advantages, IoT networks are highly vulnerable to various security threats.Cyberattacks targeting IoT systems can disrupt operations, compromise data integrity, and cause significant data loss.Addressing these challenges is particularly critical due to the large scale and resource constraints of IoT devices, necessitating robust and efficient security management.This paper introduces a modified hybrid rank attack, evaluates its impact, and compares it to other hybrid rank attacks.The results demonstrate that the proposed attack severely degrades network Quality of Service, significantly affecting metrics such as overhead (increase of 390%), energy consumption (increase of 117%), Packet Delivery Ratio (decrease of 37%) and latency (increase of 95%).