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Poster Abstract: An Experimental Study of Attacks on the Availability of Glossy

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Glossy is a reliable and low latency flooding mechanism which makes use of constructive interference. Therefore, it is important to investigate what happens when attacks are mounted on Glossy that try to break constructive interference. In this chapter, we explore the effectiveness of different methods of breaking constructive interference in Glossy. Our results show that Glossy is quite robust to approaches where nodes do not respect the timing constraints necessary to create constructive interference. Changing the packet content, however, has a more tremendous effect on the packet reception rate.

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Acknowledgments

We would like to thank Federico Ferrari for clarifications regarding Glossy internals. This work was supported by the WISENET center at Uppsala University.

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  1. Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

    Kasun Hewage & Thiemo Voigt

  2. SICS Swedish ICT, Kista, Sweden

    Thiemo Voigt

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  1. Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands

    Koen Langendoen

  2. Queensland Centre for Advanced Technologies (QCAT), CSIRO ICT Centre, Pullenvale, Queensland, Australia

    Wen Hu

  3. Computer Engineering and Networks Laboratory ETZ G81, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

    Federico Ferrari

  4. Computer Engineering and Networks Laboratory ETZ G81, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

    Marco Zimmerling

  5. Dipartimento di Elettronica ed Informazione, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy

    Luca Mottola

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Hewage, K., Voigt, T. (2014). Poster Abstract: An Experimental Study of Attacks on the Availability of Glossy. In: Langendoen, K., Hu, W., Ferrari, F., Zimmerling, M., Mottola, L. (eds) Real-World Wireless Sensor Networks. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 281. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-03071-5_13

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