A Survey on Wireless Security: Technical Challenges, Recent Advances and Future Trends

This paper examines the security vulnerabilities and threats imposed by the inherent open nature of wireless communications and to devise efficient defense mechanisms for improving the wireless network security. We first summarize the security requirements of wireless networks, including their authenticity, confidentiality, integrity and availability issues. Next, a comprehensive overview of security attacks encountered in wireless networks is presented in view of the network protocol architecture, where the potential security threats are discussed at each protocol layer. We also provide a survey of the existing security protocols and algorithms that are adopted in the existing wireless network standards, such as the Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, WiMAX, and the long-term evolution (LTE) systems. Then, we discuss the state-of-the-art in physical-layer security, which is an emerging technique of securing the open communications environment against eavesdropping attacks at the physical layer. We also introduce the family of various jamming attacks and their counter-measures, including the constant jammer, intermittent jammer, reactive jammer, adaptive jammer and intelligent jammer. Additionally, we discuss the integration of physical-layer security into existing authentication and cryptography mechanisms for further securing wireless networks. Finally, some technical challenges which remain unresolved at the time of writing are summarized and the future trends in wireless security are discussed.Comment: 36 pages. Accepted to Appear in Proceedings of the IEEE, 201

Detailed examination of a packet collision model for Bluetooth Low Energy advertising mode

The aim of this paper is to investigate the amount of energy that is required to successfully transmit information inside the Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) advertising packets. There are applications that require more than one BLE node to simultaneously transmit data. The BLE protocol utilizes a specific communication method termed advertising mode to perform unidirectional broadcasts of data from the advertising devices. However, with an increased number of BLE devices advertising simultaneously, there will be inevitable packet collisions from the advertising devices. This results in a waste of energy, specifically in low-power applications where lower consumption is desirable to minimize the need for battery replacements. This paper examines a packet collision model for the BLE advertising mode with the results validated using experimental data. Our analysis shows that when the throughput of the BLE network starts to fall due to an increase in the number of packet collisions, the energy consumption of the BLE nodes increase exponentially with respect to the number of nodes

이기종 IoT 기기간 협력을 통한 네트워크 성능 향상

학위논문(박사) -- 서울대학교대학원 : 공과대학 전기·정보공학부, 2022. 8. 박세웅.The Internet of Things (IoT) has become a daily life by pioneering applications in various fields. In this dissertation, we consider increasing transmission data rate with energy efficiency, extending transmission coverage with low power, and improving reliability in congested frequency bands as three challenges to expanding IoT applications. We address two issues to overcome these challenges. First, we design a layered network system with a new structure that combines Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) and Wi-Fi networks in a multi-hop network. Based on the system, we propose methods to increase data rate with energy efficiency and extend transmission coverage in a low-power situation. We implement the proposed system in the Linux kernel and evaluate the performance through an indoor testbed. As a result, we confirmed that the proposed system supports high data traffic and reduces average power consumption in the testbed compared to the existing single BLE/Wi-Fi ad-hoc network in a multi-hop situation. Second, we tackle the adaptive frequency hopping (AFH) problem of BLE through cross-technology communication (CTC) and channel weighting. We design the AFH scheme that weights the channels used by BLE devices with improving reliability in the congested bands of both Wi-Fi and BLE devices. We evaluate the proposed scheme through prototype experiments and simulations, confirming that the proposed scheme increases the packet reception rate of BLE in the congested ISM band compared to the existing AFH algorithm.사물인터넷은 현재 다양한 영역에서 application을 개척하여 생활화되어 왔다. 이 학위 논문에서는 사물인터넷의 응용 사례 확장을 위해 에너지 효율적인 전송 속도 향상, 저전력 상황에서의 전송 범위 확장, 혼잡한 대역에서의 신뢰성 향상을 새로운 도전 과제로 삼고, 이러한 도전 과제를 극복할 두 가지 주제를 다룬다. 첫째, 다중 홉 네트워크 상황에서의 블루투스 저전력과 Wi-Fi 네트워크를 결합 한 새로운 구조의 계층적 네트워크 시스템을 설계하고 이에 기반한 에너지 효율적인 전송 속도 향상 및 저전력 상황에서의 전송 범위확장을 제안한다. 제안된 시스템은 Linux 커널에 구현하여 실내 테스트베드를 통해 성능을 평가한다. 결과적으로 제안 한 기법이 다중 홉 상황에서 기존 블루투스 저전력/Wi-Fi 단일 ad-hoc 네트워크와 비교하여 높은 데이터 트래픽을 지원하며, 테스트베드에서의 평균 전력 소비를 줄 이는 것을 확인한다. 둘째, Cross-technology Communication (CTC)과 채널 가중치를 통한 블루투스 저전력의 Adaptive Frequency Hopping (AFH) 문제를 해결한다. 최종적으로 블루투스 저전력 기기가 사용하는 채널에 가중치를 두는 AFH 기법을 설계하여 Wi-Fi 와 블루투스 저전력 기기가 모두 혼잡한 대역에서의 신뢰성을 향상한다. 프로토타입 실험과 시뮬레이션을 통해 제안한 기법이 기존의 AFH 기법과 비교하여 혼잡한 ISM 대역에서 블루투스 저전력의 패킷 수신율을 증가시키는 것을 확인한다.1 Introduction 1 1.1 Motivation 1 1.2 Contributions and Outline 2 2 Wi-BLE: On Cooperative Operation of Wi-Fi and Bluetooth Low Energy under IPv6 4 2.1 Introduction 4 2.2 Related Work 7 2.2.1 Multihop Connectivity for Wi-Fi or BLE 7 2.2.2 Multi-radio Operation 11 2.3 System Overview 13 2.3.1 Control Plane 13 2.3.2 Data Plane 16 2.3.3 Overall Procedure 16 2.4 MABLE: AODV Routing over BLE 17 2.4.1 BLE Channel Utilization 17 2.4.2 Joint Establishment of Route and Connection 20 2.4.3 Link Quality Metric for BLE Data Channels 22 2.4.4 Bi-directional Route Error Propagation 25 2.5 Wi-BLE: Wi-Fi Ad-hoc over BLE 27 2.5.1 Radio Selection 27 2.5.2 Routing and Radio Wake-up for Wi-Fi 30 2.6 Evaluation 32 2.6.1 BLE Routing 33 2.6.2 Wi-Fi Routing over BLE 35 2.6.3 Radio Selection 38 2.7 Summary 40 3 WBC-AFH: Direct Wi-Fi to BLE Communication based AFH 41 3.1 Introduction 41 3.2 Background 45 3.2.1 Frequency hopping in BLE 45 3.2.2 Cross Technology Communication 47 3.3 Proposed AFH 49 3.3.1 CTC based informing 50 3.3.2 Weighted channel select 51 3.3.3 Hopping set size optimization 52 3.3.4 WBC-AFH 54 3.4 Evaluation 57 3.4.1 Setup 57 3.4.2 Robustness 60 3.4.3 Reliability 61 3.5 Future Work 65 3.6 Summary 66 4 Conclusion 67박

A comprehensive survey of wireless body area networks on PHY, MAC, and network layers solutions

Recent advances in microelectronics and integrated circuits, system-on-chip design, wireless communication and intelligent low-power sensors have allowed the realization of a Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN). A WBAN is a collection of low-power, miniaturized, invasive/non-invasive lightweight wireless sensor nodes that monitor the human body functions and the surrounding environment. In addition, it supports a number of innovative and interesting applications such as ubiquitous healthcare, entertainment, interactive gaming, and military applications. In this paper, the fundamental mechanisms of WBAN including architecture and topology, wireless implant communication, low-power Medium Access Control (MAC) and routing protocols are reviewed. A comprehensive study of the proposed technologies for WBAN at Physical (PHY), MAC, and Network layers is presented and many useful solutions are discussed for each layer. Finally, numerous WBAN applications are highlighted

Advanced Protocols for Peer-to-Peer Data Transmission in Wireless Gigabit Networks

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This document provides a brief overview of the actual wireless ad hoc sensor networks technologies and standards available, especially in view of their possible implementation for shipping container protection and monitoring within the framework of the STEC Action aiming at analyzing possible technical solutions to improve the security of the millions of containers moving in and out of Europe. Examples of applications and research projects are reported from the literature to give insights on the possibility of implementation of wireless sensor networks in real world scenarios.JRC.G.5-European laboratory for structural assessmen

A critical analysis of research potential, challenges and future directives in industrial wireless sensor networks

In recent years, Industrial Wireless Sensor Networks (IWSNs) have emerged as an important research theme with applications spanning a wide range of industries including automation, monitoring, process control, feedback systems and automotive. Wide scope of IWSNs applications ranging from small production units, large oil and gas industries to nuclear fission control, enables a fast-paced research in this field. Though IWSNs offer advantages of low cost, flexibility, scalability, self-healing, easy deployment and reformation, yet they pose certain limitations on available potential and introduce challenges on multiple fronts due to their susceptibility to highly complex and uncertain industrial environments. In this paper a detailed discussion on design objectives, challenges and solutions, for IWSNs, are presented. A careful evaluation of industrial systems, deadlines and possible hazards in industrial atmosphere are discussed. The paper also presents a thorough review of the existing standards and industrial protocols and gives a critical evaluation of potential of these standards and protocols along with a detailed discussion on available hardware platforms, specific industrial energy harvesting techniques and their capabilities. The paper lists main service providers for IWSNs solutions and gives insight of future trends and research gaps in the field of IWSNs