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RESCUE: A Resilient and Secure Device-to-Device Communication Framework for Emergencies

Stute, Milan ; Kohnhauser, Florian ; Baumgärtner, Lars ; Almon, Lars ; Hollick, Matthias ; Katzenbeisser, Stefan ; Freisleben, Bernd (2021)
RESCUE: A Resilient and Secure Device-to-Device Communication Framework for Emergencies.
In: IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, 2020
doi: 10.26083/tuprints-00017838
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Kurzbeschreibung (Abstract)

During disasters, existing telecommunication infrastructures are often congested or even destroyed. In these situations, mobile devices can form a backup communication network for civilians and emergency services using disruption-tolerant networking (DTN) principles. Unfortunately, such distributed and resource-constrained networks are particularly susceptible to a wide range of attacks such as terrorists trying to cause more harm. In this paper, we present RESCUE, a resilient and secure device-to-device communication framework for emergency scenarios that provides comprehensive protection against common attacks. RESCUE features a minimalistic DTN protocol that, by design, is secure against notable attacks such as routing manipulations, dropping, message manipulations, blackholing, or impersonation. To further protect against message flooding and Sybil attacks, we present a twofold mitigation technique. First, a mobile and distributed certificate infrastructure particularly tailored to the emergency use case hinders the adversarial use of multiple identities. Second, a message buffer management scheme significantly increases resilience against flooding attacks, even if they originate from multiple identities, without introducing additional overhead. Finally, we demonstrate the effectiveness of RESCUE via large-scale simulations in a synthetic as well as a realistic natural disaster scenario. Our simulation results show that RESCUE achieves very good message delivery rates, even under flooding and Sybil attacks.

Typ des Eintrags: Artikel
Erschienen: 2021
Autor(en): Stute, Milan ; Kohnhauser, Florian ; Baumgärtner, Lars ; Almon, Lars ; Hollick, Matthias ; Katzenbeisser, Stefan ; Freisleben, Bernd
Art des Eintrags: Zweitveröffentlichung
Titel: RESCUE: A Resilient and Secure Device-to-Device Communication Framework for Emergencies
Sprache: Englisch
Publikationsjahr: 2021
Publikationsdatum der Erstveröffentlichung: 2020
Verlag: IEEE
Titel der Zeitschrift, Zeitung oder Schriftenreihe: IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing
Kollation: 13 Seiten
DOI: 10.26083/tuprints-00017838
URL / URN: https://tuprints.ulb.tu-darmstadt.de/17838
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Kurzbeschreibung (Abstract):

During disasters, existing telecommunication infrastructures are often congested or even destroyed. In these situations, mobile devices can form a backup communication network for civilians and emergency services using disruption-tolerant networking (DTN) principles. Unfortunately, such distributed and resource-constrained networks are particularly susceptible to a wide range of attacks such as terrorists trying to cause more harm. In this paper, we present RESCUE, a resilient and secure device-to-device communication framework for emergency scenarios that provides comprehensive protection against common attacks. RESCUE features a minimalistic DTN protocol that, by design, is secure against notable attacks such as routing manipulations, dropping, message manipulations, blackholing, or impersonation. To further protect against message flooding and Sybil attacks, we present a twofold mitigation technique. First, a mobile and distributed certificate infrastructure particularly tailored to the emergency use case hinders the adversarial use of multiple identities. Second, a message buffer management scheme significantly increases resilience against flooding attacks, even if they originate from multiple identities, without introducing additional overhead. Finally, we demonstrate the effectiveness of RESCUE via large-scale simulations in a synthetic as well as a realistic natural disaster scenario. Our simulation results show that RESCUE achieves very good message delivery rates, even under flooding and Sybil attacks.

Status: Verlagsversion
URN: urn:nbn:de:tuda-tuprints-178380
Sachgruppe der Dewey Dezimalklassifikatin (DDC): 000 Allgemeines, Informatik, Informationswissenschaft > 004 Informatik
Fachbereich(e)/-gebiet(e): 20 Fachbereich Informatik
20 Fachbereich Informatik > Sichere Mobile Netze
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Profilbereiche > Cybersicherheit (CYSEC)
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LOEWE > LOEWE-Zentren
LOEWE > LOEWE-Zentren > emergenCITY
TU-Projekte: HMWK|III L6-519/03/05.001-(0016)|emergenCity TP Bock
Hinterlegungsdatum: 25 Jun 2021 12:18
Letzte Änderung: 23 Aug 2021 12:41
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