Effects of Wi-Fi and Bluetooth Battery Exhaustion Attacks on Mobile Devices

Author

Moyers, Benjamin R. ; Dunning, John P. ; Marchany, Randolph C. ; Tront, Joseph G.

Author_Institution

Virginia Polytech. Inst. & State Univ., Blacksburg, VA, USA

fYear

2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

9

Abstract

This paper provides insight into the ramifications of battery exhaustion Denial of Service (DoS) attacks on battery-powered mobile devices. Several IEEE 802.11 Wi-Fi, IEEE 802.15.1 Bluetooth, and blended attacks are studied to understand their effects on device battery lifetimes. In the worst case, DoS attacks against mobile devices were found to accelerate battery depletion as much as 18.5%. Also presented in this work is a hybrid Intrusion Detection System (IDS) designed to thwart this form of malicious activity; Multi-Vector Portable Intrusion Detection System (MVP-IDS). MVP-IDS combines host-based device instantaneous current (IC) monitoring with attack traffic signaturing modules.

Keywords

Bluetooth; mobile communication; safety systems; wireless LAN; Bluetooth; DoS; Wi-Fi; battery exhaustion; battery-powered mobile devices; denial of service attacks; instantaneous current monitoring; multivector portable intrusion detection system; Batteries; Bluetooth; Broadcasting; Communication system security; Dispatching; Intrusion detection; Mobile ad hoc networks; Mobile communication; Network topology; Peer to peer computing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

System Sciences (HICSS), 2010 43rd Hawaii International Conference on

Conference_Location

Honolulu, HI

ISSN

1530-1605

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-5509-6

Electronic_ISBN

1530-1605

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/HICSS.2010.170

Filename

5428422