An Investigation of a Replay Attack on LoRaWAN Wearable Devices

Sep 4, 2023·
Toni Perković
Toni Perković
,
Josip Šabić
,
Kristina Zovko
,
Petar Šolić
DOI

Abstract

This paper presents a study on a replay attack targeting the Long Range (LoRa) protocol, a popular wireless communication technology for Internet of Things (IoT) applications. Insecure configuration of LoRaWAN wearable devices may result in a successful replay attack against messages sent by wearable bracelets, which may have an impact on the reliability of messages sent from legitimate devices. In this paper, the impact of such attack is analyzed by observing changes in the LoRaWAN gateway, and other parameters of the packet are derived from the replayed signal.

Type

Publication

IEEE International Mediterranean Conference on Communications and Networking (MeditCom), 11, 45–49

Status

Peer-reviewed
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Toni Perković
Authors
Toni Perković
Full Professor
I am a Full Professor in the Department of Electronics and Computing at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture (FESB), University of Split, Croatia, where I teach wireless network security, wireless communication networks, data science and reinforcement learning. My research spans information security, applied cryptography and the Internet of Things. Before returning to FESB in 2020, I was an assistant and then associate professor at the University Department of Forensic Sciences in Split. I co-founded the SpliTech international conference and serve on the editorial board of the Journal of Communications Software and Systems.