Addressing the DAO Insider Attack in RPL’s Internet of Things Networks

Ghaleb, Baraq; Al-Dubai, Ahmed; Ekonomou, Elias; Qasem, Mamoun; Romdhani, Imed; Mackenzie, Lewis

Abstract

In RPL routing protocol, the DAO (Destination Advertisement Object) control messages are announced by the child nodes to their parents to build downward routes. A malicious insider node can exploit this feature to send fake DAOs to its parents periodically, triggering those parents, in turn, to forward the fake messages upward to the root node. In this study, we show how this behaviour can have a detrimental side effect on the performance of the network, increasing power consumption, latency and reducing reliability. To address this problem, a new scheme is introduced to mitigate significantly the effect of the DAO attack on network performance.

Citation

Ghaleb, B., Al-Dubai, A., Ekonomou, E., Qasem, M., Romdhani, I., & Mackenzie, L. (2019). Addressing the DAO Insider Attack in RPL’s Internet of Things Networks. IEEE Communications Letters, 23(1), 68-71. https://doi.org/10.1109/LCOMM.2018.2878151

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Oct 12, 2018
• Online Publication Date: Oct 26, 2018
• Publication Date: 2019-01
• Deposit Date: Oct 18, 2018
• Publicly Available Date: Oct 18, 2018
• Journal: IEEE Communications Letters
• Print ISSN: 1089-7798
• Electronic ISSN: 1558-2558
• Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 23
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 68-71
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/LCOMM.2018.2878151
• Keywords: Modelling and Simulation; Electrical and Electronic Engineering; Computer Science Applications
• Public URL: http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/1319002
• Contract Date: Oct 18, 2018