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Energy Saving as a Security Threat in LPWAN and Internet of Things

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The last years have been characterized with a radical and constant evolution of wireless networks, making connected objects ubiquitous and omnipresent in daily life. This has brought a radical shift of wireless networks paradigm, where the objects are characterized with new roles. This paradigm shift interlinked the physical and cyber-physical world, promoting the emergence of Cyber-Physical-Systems (CPS). The utility of devices is not limited to connecting users to the Internet but they play an active role within the cyber-physical world. CPS is a spatially distributed and time-critical extensive network of physical entities with computation and communication capabilities. In this complex cyber-world, different types of communication technologies have been introduced, to account for both short and long distances, with a common point characterizing all these technologies that is represented by the energy and resource capabilities constraints.

In this chapter, we will introduce the main standards proposed for short and long distance wireless connected objects, and will focus on Energy Depletion Attacks (EDA). Based on EDA approaches as proposed in literature for IEEE 802.11 standard, we will analyze how the adopted framework can be easily adapted to perform other attacks in the context of IoT and LPWAN.

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  1. Inria Lille-Nord Europe, Villeneuved’Ascq, France

    Emilie Bout & Valeria Loscrí

  2. Univ. Polytechnique Hauts-de-France, LAMIH, CNRS, UMR 8201, INSA Hauts-de-France, Valenciennes, France

    Antoine Gallais

  3. Industrial, Electronics and Mechanical Engineering Department (DIIEM), Roma Tre University, Rome, Italy

    Anna Maria Vegni

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Bout, E., Gallais, A., Loscrí, V., Vegni, A.M. (2023). Energy Saving as a Security Threat in LPWAN and Internet of Things. In: Butun, I., Akyildiz, I.F. (eds) Low-Power Wide-Area Networks: Opportunities, Challenges, Risks and Threats. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-32935-7_4

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