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Sensors and Wireless Communication Networks

A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Sensor Networks".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 May 2023) | Viewed by 2518

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School of Information technology, University of Melbourne, Burwood, VIC 3125, Australia
Interests: security; RFID; WSN; protocol design
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Dear Colleagues,

Advances in information and communication technologies has led to a sharp increase in the number of devices and sensors as well as a plethora of wireless communication networks that include the internet of things (IoT), wireless sensor networks (WSN), cognitive radio (CR), and radio frequency identification (RFID). With an unprecedented number of applications emerging in several domains, such as the health and supply chain, that solely depend on wireless communication systems along with the services they provide, the need for efficient, reliable, and secure wireless communication has become an important area of research in recent years. 

The aim of this Special Issue is to bring together researchers and developers from business and academia to offer their perspectives on current trends and challenges in wireless technologies and emerging applications. We solicit papers that address the fundamental and practical challenges of wireless technologies and emerging applications that propose new efficient solutions and techniques.

Prof. Dr. Jemal Abawajy
Dr. Ghaith Khalil
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • wireless sensor networks (WSN)
  • cognitive radio (CR)
  • Radio frequency identifier (RFID)
  • Internet of things (IoT)
  • radio frequency (RF)
  • emerging applications

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24 pages, 1967 KiB  
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Fragmentation Attacks and Countermeasures on 6LoWPAN Internet of Things Networks: Survey and Simulation
by Sarah Alyami, Randah Alharbi and Farag Azzedin
Sensors 2022, 22(24), 9825; https://doi.org/10.3390/s22249825 - 14 Dec 2022
Cited by 3 | Viewed by 1820
Abstract
The Internet of things is a popular concept in the current digital revolution. Nowadays, devices worldwide can be connected to the Internet, enhancing their communication, capabilities, and intelligence. Low-Power Wireless Personal Area Network (6LoWPAN) was specifically designed to build wireless networks for IoT [...] Read more.
The Internet of things is a popular concept in the current digital revolution. Nowadays, devices worldwide can be connected to the Internet, enhancing their communication, capabilities, and intelligence. Low-Power Wireless Personal Area Network (6LoWPAN) was specifically designed to build wireless networks for IoT resource-constrained devices. However, 6LoWPAN is susceptible to several security attacks. The fragmentation mechanism, in particular, is vulnerable to various attacks due to the lack of fragment authentication and verification procedures in the adaptation layer. This article provides a survey of fragmentation attacks and available countermeasures. Furthermore, the buffer reservation attack, one of the most harmful fragmentation attacks that may cause DoS, is studied and simulated in detail. A countermeasure for this attack is also implemented based on a reputation-scoring scheme. Experiments showed the harmful effects of the buffer reservation attack and the effectiveness of the implemented reputation-scoring countermeasure. Full article
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