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Internet of Things (IoT) becomes more popular, and things are connected to each other through wired or wireless communication methods. Though things are connected with various methods easily, it attracts network attackers who exploit these open and convenient network connections in order to obtain unjustified information and benefits or to subvert various IoT systems. Especially, Denial of Service (DoS) attack becomes a serious problem on IoT system where huge number of devices are connected to. These devices are usually connected to IoT gateways in order to send packets to Internet. However, currently the impact of DoS attack on an IoT gateway, which has various interfaces such as wireless LAN interface and wired LAN interface, is not well examined. In this paper, we assess the impact of DoS attack on an IoT gateway with various scenarios. We implemented a prototype of an IoT gateway which has wired and wireless network interfaces by using Raspberry Pi, OpenWRT, and OVS (Open vSwitch). With this prototype, we evaluated various DoS attack scenarios on this IoT gateway. Through this evaluation, we observed the severity of DoS attack on IoT gateways, especially for wireless connections.
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This work was supported by Institute for Information & communications Technology Promotion (IITP) grant funded by the Korea government (MSIP) (R0110-16-1001, Secure hardware containers technology to protect IoT devices from Denial of Service attack).
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Lee, Y., Lee, W., Shin, G., Kim, K. (2017). Assessing the Impact of DoS Attacks on IoT Gateway. In: Park, J., Chen, SC., Raymond Choo, KK. (eds) Advanced Multimedia and Ubiquitous Engineering. FutureTech MUE 2017 2017. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 448. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-5041-1_43
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