Authenticated Preambles for Denial of Service Mitigation in LPWANs

04/17/2019

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by   Ioana Suciu, et al.

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In this article we introduce authentication preambles as a mechanism to mitigate battery exhaustion attacks in LPWAN networks. We focus on the LoRaWAN technology as an exponent of industrial LPWANs. We analyze the impact of DoS attacks in Class B deployments and implement authentication preambles to limit attacker options when forcing nodes to overhear class B beacons. The article presents realistic results demonstrating significant energy savings (91 saving when a network is attacked) versus a 4 in normally operating networks.