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Misbehavior Detection in Industrial Wireless Networks: Challenges and Directions

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In communications, there has been a paradigm shift toward the widespread adoption of wireless technologies in recent years. This evolution to—often ad-hoc—wireless communication has led to significant benefits in terms of flexibility and mobility. However, alongside these benefits, arise new attack vectors, which cannot be mitigated by traditional security measures. Especially in scenarios where traditional, proactive cryptographic techniques cannot be deployed or have been compromised, reactive mechanisms are necessary to detect intrusions. In this paper, we discuss new directions and future challenges in detecting insider attacks for the exemplary application domain of industrial wireless networks, an enabling technology for current smart factory trends. First, we review existing work on intrusion detection in mobile ad-hoc networks with a focus on physical-layer-based detection mechanisms. Second, we conduct a proof-of-concept study of insider detection in industrial wireless networks using real-world measurements from an industrial facility. Based on the study, we point out new directions for future research.

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Acknowledgments

We would like to express our gratitude toward Robert Bosch GmbH, Corporate Research in Hildesheim for providing the channel measurements, on which the evaluation is based.

The work was partly funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research under BMBF grant agreement no. 16KIS0222.

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    Sebastian Henningsen, Stefan Dietzel & Björn Scheuermann

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Henningsen, S., Dietzel, S. & Scheuermann, B. Misbehavior Detection in Industrial Wireless Networks: Challenges and Directions. Mobile Netw Appl 23, 1330–1336 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11036-018-1040-0

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