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Constructive and Destructive Aspects of Adaptive Wormholes for the 5G Tactile Internet

Authors:

Christian T. Zenger,

Mario Pietersz,

Benedikt Driessen,

Christof PaarAuthors Info & Claims

WiSec '16: Proceedings of the 9th ACM Conference on Security & Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks

Pages 109 - 120

https://doi.org/10.1145/2939918.2939923

Published: 18 July 2016 Publication History

Abstract

In this work, we constructively combine adaptive wormholes with channel-reciprocity based key establishment (CRKE), which has been proposed as a lightweight security solution for IoT devices and might be even more important for the 5G Tactile Internet and its embedded low-end devices. We present a new secret key generation protocol where two parties compute shared cryptographic keys under narrow-band multi-path fading models over a delayed digital channel. The proposed approach furthermore enables distance-bounding the key establishment process via the coherence time dependencies of the wireless channel. Our scheme is thoroughly evaluated both theoretically and practically. For the latter, we used a testbed based on the IEEE 802.15.4 standard and performed extensive experiments in a real-world manufacturing environment. Additionally, we demonstrate adaptive wormhole attacks (AWOAs) and their consequences on several physical-layer security schemes. Furthermore, we proposed a countermeasure that minimizes the risk of AWOAs.

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Marques REpiphaniou GAl-Khateeb HMaple CHammoudeh MDe Castro PDehghantanha AChoo K(2021)A Flow-based Multi-agent Data Exfiltration Detection Architecture for Ultra-low Latency NetworksACM Transactions on Internet Technology10.1145/341910321:4(1-30)Online publication date: 16-Jul-2021
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