Off-sensing and Route Manipulation Attack: A Cross-Layer Attack in Cognitive Radio based Wireless Mesh Networks
Off-sensing and Route Manipulation Attack: A Cross-Layer Attack in Cognitive Radio based Wireless Mesh Networks
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10.1109/infocom.2018.8485919
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2018-04
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Moinul Hossain;Jiang Xie
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作者：
Moinul Hossain;Jiang Xie
认知无线电在过去的十年里受到了广泛的关注，但其安全问题尚未得到充分的研究。现有的研究在基于CR的网络中的攻击和防御主要集中在单个网络层，而跨层攻击仍然加强对单层防御。在本文中，我们揭示了一个新的漏洞，在跨层路由协议，并演示了犯罪者如何利用这个漏洞来操纵周围的交通流量。我们提出了这种跨层攻击在基于CR的无线网状网络（CR-WMNs），我们称之为感知和路由操纵（OS-RM）攻击。在这种跨层攻击中，感知缺失攻击是在较低层作为攻击点发起的，但最终目的是操纵犯罪者周围的流量。我们还为犯罪者引入了一种学习策略，使其可以从与其他网络实体的合作中收集信息，并将这些信息转化为知识，以加速其恶意意图。仿真结果表明，这种攻击是远远超过我们在过去所经历的，需要在商业化的CR为基础的网络解决的危害。
Cognitive Radio (CR) has garnered much attention in the last decade, while the security issues are not fully studied yet. Existing research on attacks and defenses in CR - based networks focuses mostly on individual network layers, whereas cross-layer attacks remain fortified against single-layer defenses. In this paper, we shed light on a new vulnerability in cross-layer routing protocols and demonstrate how a perpetrator can exploit this vulnerability to manipulate traffic flow around it. We propose this cross-layer attack in CR-based wireless mesh networks (CR-WMNs), which we call off-sensing and route manipulation (OS-RM) attack. In this cross-layer assault, off-sensing attack is launched at the lower layers as the point of attack but the final intention is to manipulate traffic flow around the perpetrator. We also introduce a learning strategy for a perpetrator, so that it can gather information from the collaboration with other network entities and capitalize this information into knowledge to accelerate its malice intentions. Simulation results show that this attack is far more detrimental than what we have experienced in the past and need to be addressed before commercialization of CR-based networks.