Presentation 2021-03-05
Proposal for LDoS attack using indirect transmission in Zigbee and a countermeasure against it
Satoshi Okada, Daisuke Miyamoto, Yuji Sekiya, Hiroshi Nakamura,
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Abstract(in English) Low-Rate DoS (LDoS) attack degrades the quality of service with less traffic than typical DoS attacks. LDoS attack has a so small time-averaged flow that it is easy to elude the conventional counter-DoS detection mechanisms. Thus, this attack is a serious problem so far. With the recent spread of IoT devices, Zigbee, one of the IoT communication standards, is also attracting attention. Zigbee is a short-range wireless communication protocol and needs low power and low bandwidth at the sacrifice of its short transfer range and slow speed. Due to this nature, it is widely used in small inexpensive sensors and IoTs that run on batteries, but it is difficult to detect attacks with such resource-poor devices. Besides, Zigbee uses indirect communication to achieve low power consumption, which becomes a vulnerability to LDoS attacks. In this study, we propose LDoS attack using indirect communication in Zigbee and a countermeasure against it. We also conducted simulation experiments to quantitatively evaluate the impact of the attack and the effectiveness of the countermeasure.
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Keyword(in English) Zigbee / LDoS Attack / DoS Attack / Indirect Transmission / Cyber Security
Paper # NS2020-153
Date of Issue 2021-02-25 (NS)

Conference Information
Committee IN / NS
Conference Date 2021/3/4(2days)
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Place (in English) Online
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Topics (in English) General
Chair Kenji Ishida(Hiroshima City Univ.) / Akihiro Nakao(Univ. of Tokyo)
Vice Chair Kunio Hato(Internet Multifeed) / Tetsuya Oishi(NTT)
Secretary Kunio Hato(Hiroshima City Univ.) / Tetsuya Oishi(KDDI Research)
Assistant / Shinya Kawano(NTT)

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Registration To Technical Committee on Information Networks / Technical Committee on Network Systems
Language JPN
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Title (in English) Proposal for LDoS attack using indirect transmission in Zigbee and a countermeasure against it
Sub Title (in English)
Keyword(1) Zigbee
Keyword(2) LDoS Attack
Keyword(3) DoS Attack
Keyword(4) Indirect Transmission
Keyword(5) Cyber Security
1st Author's Name Satoshi Okada
1st Author's Affiliation Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo(The University of Tokyo)
2nd Author's Name Daisuke Miyamoto
2nd Author's Affiliation Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo(The University of Tokyo)
3rd Author's Name Yuji Sekiya
3rd Author's Affiliation Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo(The University of Tokyo)
4th Author's Name Hiroshi Nakamura
4th Author's Affiliation Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo(The University of Tokyo)
Date 2021-03-05
Paper # NS2020-153
Volume (vol) vol.120
Number (no) NS-413
Page pp.pp.179-184(NS),
#Pages 6
Date of Issue 2021-02-25 (NS)