Towards Securing LoRaWAN ABP Communication System

Hassan Noura, Ola Salman, Tarif Hatoum, Mohammad Malli, Ali Chehab

2020

Abstract

A large number of power-constrained devices will be connected to the Internet of Things (IoT). Deployed in large areas, the battery-powered IoT devices call for power efficient and long range communication technologies. Consequently, the Low Power Wide Area Networks(LPWAN) were devoted to being the key IoT enablers. In this context, LoRaWAN, an LPWAN technology, is one of the main IoT communication protocols candidates. However, LoRaWAN suffers from different security and privacy threats. These threats lead to several availability, authentication, and privacy attacks. In this paper, we present efficient countermeasures against two well-known ABP attacks (eavesdropping and replay). The proposed solution aims at making LoRa ABP end-devices safer, more secure and more reliable. In fact, the proposed solution is based on the dynamic key derivation scheme. We presented two variants of dynamic key derivation: counter-based and channel information-based. A set of security and performance tests shows that the proposed countermeasures present low overhead in terms of computation and communication resources with a high level of security.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Noura H., Salman O., Hatoum T., Malli M. and Chehab A. (2020). Towards Securing LoRaWAN ABP Communication System.In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science - Volume 1: CLOSER, ISBN 978-989-758-424-4, pages 440-447. DOI: 10.5220/0009561104400447

in Bibtex Style

@conference{closer20,
author={Hassan Noura and Ola Salman and Tarif Hatoum and Mohammad Malli and Ali Chehab},
title={Towards Securing LoRaWAN ABP Communication System},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science - Volume 1: CLOSER,},
year={2020},
pages={440-447},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0009561104400447},
isbn={978-989-758-424-4},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science - Volume 1: CLOSER,
TI - Towards Securing LoRaWAN ABP Communication System
SN - 978-989-758-424-4
AU - Noura H.
AU - Salman O.
AU - Hatoum T.
AU - Malli M.
AU - Chehab A.
PY - 2020
SP - 440
EP - 447
DO - 10.5220/0009561104400447