Print Email Facebook Twitter Effect of DIS Attack on 6TiSCH Network Formation Title Effect of DIS Attack on 6TiSCH Network Formation Author Kalita, Alakesh (Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati) Brighente, Alessandro (Università degli Studi di Padova) Khatua, Manas (Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati) Conti, M. (TU Delft Cyber Security; Università degli Studi di Padova) Date 2022 Abstract The 6TiSCH standard provides minimum latency and reliability in mission-critical IoT applications. To optimize resource allocation during 6TiSCH network formation, IETF released the 6TiSCH minimal configuration (6TiSCH-MC) standard. 6TiSCH-MC considered IETF's IPv6 Routing Protocol for Low power and Lossy network (RPL) as a routing protocol for both upward and downward routing. In RPL, new joining nodes or joined nodes transmit DODAG Information Solicitation (DIS) requests to get routing information from the network. However, we observe that malicious node(s) can severely affect 6TiSCH networks by sending multiple DIS requests. In this letter, we show and experimentally evaluate on real devices the impact of the DIS attack during 6TiSCH networks formation. We show that the attacker does not need expensive resources or access to the network's sensitive information to execute the DIS attack. Our testbed experiments show that the DIS attack significantly degrades the nodes' joining time and energy consumption, increasing them by 34% and 16%, respectively, compared to normal functioning during 6TiSCH network formation. Subject 6TiSCHDIS attackNetwork formationRPL Attack To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:1bba1ad2-f3a7-4abb-b58b-a7e2a348028e DOI https://doi.org/10.1109/LCOMM.2022.3155992 Embargo date 2022-06-14 ISSN 1089-7798 Source IEEE Communications Letters, 26 (5), 1190-1193 Bibliographical note Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository ‘You share, we take care!’ – Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public. Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights © 2022 Alakesh Kalita, Alessandro Brighente, Manas Khatua, M. Conti Files PDF Effect_of_DIS_Attack_on_6 ... mation.pdf 1.35 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:1bba1ad2-f3a7-4abb-b58b-a7e2a348028e/datastream/OBJ/view