TY - GEN
T1 - A crowd-assisted architecture for securing BLE beacon-based IoT infrastructure
AU - Jeon, Kang Eun
AU - She, James
AU - Wong, Simon
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 IEEE.
PY - 2018/6/8
Y1 - 2018/6/8
N2 - A BLE beacon is a small electronic device that has recently been proposed as a building block to construct an infrastructure supporting emerging smart applications. However, due to its simple communication protocol architecture, which broadcasts a static payload, a BLE beacon-based infrastructure is vulnerable to different types of abuses and attacks, in particular free-riding and device spoofing. Many beacon manufacturers propose dynamically randomizing beacon advertisement packets at the device firmware level as a solution. However, this approach is difficult to implement for already deployed beacon nodes as it requires a firmware update on each device. To alleviate these drawbacks, a crowd-assisted architecture for securing BLE beacons is proposed in this paper. A detailed architecture is presented along with experimental results and an implementation to demonstrate its feasibility. It is found that the beacon ID can be changed by user's mobile phone within a 20 m range with probability of almost 100% under both stationary and mobile conditions.
AB - A BLE beacon is a small electronic device that has recently been proposed as a building block to construct an infrastructure supporting emerging smart applications. However, due to its simple communication protocol architecture, which broadcasts a static payload, a BLE beacon-based infrastructure is vulnerable to different types of abuses and attacks, in particular free-riding and device spoofing. Many beacon manufacturers propose dynamically randomizing beacon advertisement packets at the device firmware level as a solution. However, this approach is difficult to implement for already deployed beacon nodes as it requires a firmware update on each device. To alleviate these drawbacks, a crowd-assisted architecture for securing BLE beacons is proposed in this paper. A detailed architecture is presented along with experimental results and an implementation to demonstrate its feasibility. It is found that the beacon ID can be changed by user's mobile phone within a 20 m range with probability of almost 100% under both stationary and mobile conditions.
KW - BLE beacons
KW - Bluetooth Low Energy
KW - Internet of Things security
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85049206439&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/WCNC.2018.8377376
DO - 10.1109/WCNC.2018.8377376
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85049206439
T3 - IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, WCNC
SP - 1
EP - 6
BT - 2018 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, WCNC 2018
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 2018 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, WCNC 2018
Y2 - 15 April 2018 through 18 April 2018
ER -