Development and Testing of a Real-Time LoRawan Sniffer Based on GNU-Radio

This paper shows the vulnerabilities present in a wireless sensor network implemented over a long-range wide area network (LoRaWAN) LoRaWAN, and identifies possible attacks that could be made to the network using sniffing and/or replay. Attacks on the network were performed by implementing a protoco...

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Main Authors: Andrés F. Bravo-Montoya, Jefersson S. Rondón-Sanabria, Elvis E. Gaona-García
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Published: Instituto Tecnológico Metropolitano 2019-09-01
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Online Access:https://revistas.itm.edu.co/index.php/tecnologicas/article/view/1491
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Jefersson S. Rondón-Sanabria
Elvis E. Gaona-García
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description This paper shows the vulnerabilities present in a wireless sensor network implemented over a long-range wide area network (LoRaWAN) LoRaWAN, and identifies possible attacks that could be made to the network using sniffing and/or replay. Attacks on the network were performed by implementing a protocol analyzer (Sniffer) to capture packets. The Sniffer was implemented using the RTL2832U hardware and visualized in Wireshark, through GNU-Radio. Tests showed that data availability and confidentiality could be threatened through replay attacks with LoRa server verification using HackRF One and GNU-Radio hardware. Although the LoRaWAN specification has, frame counters to avoid replay attacks, under given the right conditions, this measure could be violated even deny service to the node on the server.
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spelling doaj.art-2cf153ffef954b1c8b337cbffe7e8e522022-12-21T19:57:04ZengInstituto Tecnológico MetropolitanoTecnoLógicas0123-77992256-53372019-09-01224618519410.22430/22565337.14911491Development and Testing of a Real-Time LoRawan Sniffer Based on GNU-RadioAndrés F. Bravo-Montoya0Jefersson S. Rondón-Sanabria1Elvis E. Gaona-García2Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas, ColombiaUniversidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas, ColombiaUniversidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas, ColombiaThis paper shows the vulnerabilities present in a wireless sensor network implemented over a long-range wide area network (LoRaWAN) LoRaWAN, and identifies possible attacks that could be made to the network using sniffing and/or replay. Attacks on the network were performed by implementing a protocol analyzer (Sniffer) to capture packets. The Sniffer was implemented using the RTL2832U hardware and visualized in Wireshark, through GNU-Radio. Tests showed that data availability and confidentiality could be threatened through replay attacks with LoRa server verification using HackRF One and GNU-Radio hardware. Although the LoRaWAN specification has, frame counters to avoid replay attacks, under given the right conditions, this measure could be violated even deny service to the node on the server.https://revistas.itm.edu.co/index.php/tecnologicas/article/view/1491internet of thingslong range wide area networkdata securitysniffergnu-radio
spellingShingle Andrés F. Bravo-Montoya
Jefersson S. Rondón-Sanabria
Elvis E. Gaona-García
Development and Testing of a Real-Time LoRawan Sniffer Based on GNU-Radio
TecnoLógicas
internet of things
long range wide area network
data security
sniffer
gnu-radio
title Development and Testing of a Real-Time LoRawan Sniffer Based on GNU-Radio
title_full Development and Testing of a Real-Time LoRawan Sniffer Based on GNU-Radio
title_fullStr Development and Testing of a Real-Time LoRawan Sniffer Based on GNU-Radio
title_full_unstemmed Development and Testing of a Real-Time LoRawan Sniffer Based on GNU-Radio
title_short Development and Testing of a Real-Time LoRawan Sniffer Based on GNU-Radio
title_sort development and testing of a real time lorawan sniffer based on gnu radio
topic internet of things
long range wide area network
data security
sniffer
gnu-radio
url https://revistas.itm.edu.co/index.php/tecnologicas/article/view/1491
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