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DISH: DIstributed SHuffling Against Selective Jamming Attack in IEEE 802.15.4e TSCH Networks

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Domenico De Guglielmo,

Giuseppe Anastasi,

Sajal K. DasAuthors Info & Claims

ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks (TOSN), Volume 15, Issue 1

Article No.: 3, Pages 1 - 28

https://doi.org/10.1145/3241052

Published: 15 December 2018 Publication History

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The MAC standard amendment IEEE 802.15.4e is designed to meet the requirements of industrial and critical applications. In particular, the Time Slotted Channel Hopping (TSCH) mode divides time into periodic, equally sized, slotframes composed of transmission timeslots. Then, it combines time slotted access with multichannel and channel hopping capabilities, providing large network capacity, high reliability, and predictable latency while ensuring energy efficiency. Since every network node considers the same timeslots at each slotframe and selects physical channels according to a periodic function, TSCH produces a steady channel utilization pattern. This can be exploited by a selective jammer to entirely thwart communications of a victim node in a way that is stealthy, effective, and extremely energy efficient. This article shows how a selective jamming attack can be successfully performed even though TSCH uses the IEEE 802.15.4e security services. Furthermore, we propose DISH, a countermeasure which randomly permutes the timeslot and channel utilization patterns at every slotframe in a consistent and completely distributed way without requiring any additional message exchange. We have implemented DISH for the Contiki OS and tested its effectiveness on TelosB sensor nodes. Quantitative analysis for different network configurations shows that DISH effectively contrasts selective jamming with negligible performance penalty.

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DOI:10.1145/3300201

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