A mechanism to detecting flooding attacks in quantum enabled cloud-based lowpower and lossy networks

Abstract

RPL (Routing Protocol) is the Quantum enabled Cloud-based Low-Power Wireless Personal Area Networks (6LoWPAN) routing protocol. Destination Oriented Directed Acyclic Graph (DODAG) information Solicitation (DIS) messages are received by a node in the RPL protocol to access the network. This function may be abused by a malicious node to transmit illegitimate DIS messages to neighbouring nodes to launch a DIS flooding attack. It is found that the DIS flooding attack raises the overhead of the network control packet, which greatly degrades the efficiency of the network. This further raises the network resource demand of the nodes. A defence scheme called DIS-mitigation in RPL is proposed to resolve this problem. The proposed system greatly mitigates the impact of the DIS flooding attack on the output of the network and also finds the nodes that produce the DIS flood attack effectively. The efficacy of the suggested scheme is related to the traditional RPL protocol and the current stable RPL mechanism. In both static and dynamic network conditions, the experimental findings demonstrate that the proposed model identifies and mitigates DIS flooding attacks rapidly and effectively, without introducing any major overhead to the nodes.