Denial of Service (DoS) attacks constitute a major security threat to today’s Internet. This challenge is especially pertinent to the Internet of Things (IoT) as devices have less computing power, memory and security mechanisms to mitigate DoS attacks. This paper presents a model that mimics the unique characteristics of a network of IoT devices, including components of the system implementing ‘Crypto Puzzles’ - a DoS mitigation technique. We created an imitation of a DoS attack on the system, and conducted a quantitative analysis to simulate the impact such an attack may potentially exert upon the system, assessing the trade off between security and throughput in the IoT system. We model this through stochastic model checking in PRISM and provide evidence that supports this as a valuable method to compare the efficiency of different implementations of IoT systems, exemplified by a case study.
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Arnaboldi, L., & Morisset, C. (2017). Quantitative analysis of dos attacks and client puzzles in IoT systems. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (Vol. 10547 LNCS, pp. 224–233). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68063-7_16
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