Evaluation of Resource Exhaustion Attacks against Wireless Mobile Devices

• Main Authors: Vasily Desnitsky, Igor Kotenko, Danil Zakoldaev
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI AG 2019-05-01
• Series: Electronics
• Subjects: cyber-physical security; energy exhaustion attacks; denial-of-sleep; modeling and simulation
• Online Access: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/8/5/500

Currently, energy resource exhaustion attacks targeted on modern autonomously working mobile devices are becoming more and more important. The underdevelopment of specialized defenses against energy exhaustion attacks as well as their often hidden nature for the owner of the target device determine a necessity of an integrated approach to modeling and evaluation of this class of attacks and various types of intruders. The paper analyzes conditions of applicability of energy resource exhaustion attacks performed by various classes of intruders, models them on physical implementations of devices for two application areas, and calculates their performance indicators. Application areas are a TCP/IP network of end-user mobile devices and a self-organizing mesh network designed for operational management and emergency response.