Energy level spoofing attacks and countermeasures in blockchain-enabled IoT

Ali Hussain Khan, Humza Ikram, Chuadhry Mujeeb Ahmed, Naveed Ul Hassan, Zartash Afzal Uzmi

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Abstract

The Internet of Things (IoT) ecosystem is witnessing widespread deployments for emerging applications in diverse domains such as remote sensing, smart homes, and industry 4.0. There is also a growing need to secure such deployments against malicious IoT devices to sustain normal network operations. Since the IoT deployments encompass geographically distributed nodes, blockchain technology, which inherently offers distributed trust in such scenarios, is gaining popularity in providing a secure and trusted IoT deployment. In this paper, we present a use case in which an IoT deployment is retrofitted with a blockchain. The use of blockchain prevents malicious nodes from falsifying information about their energy levels. We first present attack scenarios where IoT nodes can spoof energy while joining or being a part of the network. We then build a defense strategy and evaluate its performance under various attack scenarios. Our results indicate that the IoT deployment is robust under the proposed defense strategy which can detect if a node is spoofing its energy levels over 75% of the time.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationGLOBECOM 2022 - 2022 IEEE Global Communications Conference
Place of PublicationPiscataway, N.J.
PublisherIEEE
Pages4322-4327
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9781665435406
ISBN (Print)9781665435413
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 11 Jan 2023
EventGLOBECOM 2022: 2022 IEEE Global Communications Conference - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Duration: 4 Dec 20228 Dec 2022
https://globecom2022.ieee-globecom.org/

Publication series

NameGLOBECOM 2022 - 2022 IEEE Global Communications Conference
PublisherIEEE DataPort

Conference

ConferenceGLOBECOM 2022
Abbreviated titleGLOBECOM 2022
Country/TerritoryBrazil
CityRio de Janeiro
Period4/12/228/12/22
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Keywords

  • ecosystems
  • smart homes
  • receivers
  • energy states
  • blockchains
  • internet of things (IoT)
  • global communication

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