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A Lightweight Authentication Mechanism for Acknowledgment Frame in IEEE 802.15.4  

Heo, Joon (경희대학교 컴퓨터공학과)
Hong, Choong-Seon (경희대학교 컴퓨터공학과)
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Journal of KIISE:Information Networking / v.34, no.3, 2007 , pp. 175-185 More about this Journal
Abstract
In IEEE 802.15.4 (Low-Rate Wireless Personal Area Network) specification, a successful reception and validation of a data or MAC command frame can be confirmed with an acknowledgment. However, the specification does not support security for acknowledgment frame; the lack of a MAC covering acknowledgments allows an adversary to forge an acknowledgment for any frame. This paper proposes an identity authentication mechanism at the link layer for acknowledgment frame in IEEE 802.15.4 network. With the proposed mechanism there is only three bits for authentication, which can greatly reduce overhead of device. The encrypted bit stream for identity authentication will be transmitted to device by coordinator within association process. Statistical method and simulation results prove that our mechanism is successful in handling MAC layer attack.
Keywords
IEEE 802.15.4; acknowledgment frame; lightweight authentication; attack detection;
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