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IMDRPL: Identifying and eliminating malicious devices using DIO and DAO ICMP control messages in RPL-based protocol

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IoT refers to a collection of smart connected devices that collect and process data to make the world smarter. By 2025, there will be around 41.6 billion connected IoT devices and entities. So, providing security to IoT devices and data communicated among the devices is necessary. This research aims at providing security for IoT data and devices in a real-time environment. Identifying malicious devices and removing them from the network will improve the lifetime of the networks as well as save the energy of each node in an IoT environment. The in-built and existing security mechanisms of the RPL protocol are not checking the control messages as many attacks have occurred in the current scenario. This paper proposes a protocol based on DODAG Information Object (DIO) and DODAG Advertisement Object (DAO) control messages which are used in RPL protocol. The proposed protocol ensures secure data and device communication among the nodes in the IoT environment by using Encrypted Certificate Attestation Service (CAS) Technique. The Cooja Platform Simulator, which is part of Contiki OS, is used to simulate the proposed work. The simulation outcomes demonstrate that the suggested IMDRPL protocol improves the lifetime of networks, and throughput and decreases packet loss compared to the existing RPL-based protocols.

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P. Deepavathi: Conceived the presented idea, performed the experiments, analysis of the results, and wrote an original draft preparation. C. Mala: Supervision and approved the final manuscript.

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Deepavathi, P., Mala, C. IMDRPL: Identifying and eliminating malicious devices using DIO and DAO ICMP control messages in RPL-based protocol. Peer-to-Peer Netw. Appl. 16, 2380–2398 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12083-023-01539-0

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