PHY-IDS: A physical-layer spoofing attack detection system for wearable devices
2020 (English)In: WearSys 2020 - Proceedings of the 6th ACM Workshop on Wearable Systems and Applications, Part of MobiSys 2020, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc , 2020, p. 1-6Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]
In modern connected healthcare applications, wearable devices supporting real-time monitoring and diagnosis have become mainstream. However, wearable systems are exposed to massive cyberattacks that threaten not only data security but also human safety and life. One of the fundamental security threats is device impersonation. We therefore propose PHY-IDS; a lightweight real-time detection system that captures spoofing attacks leveraging on body motions. Our system utilizes time series of physical layer features and builds on the fact that it is non-trivial to inject malicious frames that are indistinguishable with legitimate ones. With the help of statistical learning, our system characterizes the signal behavior and flags deviations as anomalies. We experimentally evaluate PHY-IDS's performance using bodyworn devices in real attack scenarios. For four types of attackers with increasing knowledge of the deployed detection system, the results show that PHY-IDS detects naive attackers with high accuracy above 99.8\% and maintains good accuracy for stronger attackers at a range from 81.0% to 98.9%.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Association for Computing Machinery, Inc , 2020. p. 1-6
Keywords [en]
machine learning, physical-layer security, spoofing attacks, time series analysis, wearables, Network security, Wearable technology, Attack scenarios, Connected healthcares, Real time monitoring, Real-time detection, Security threats, Statistical learning, Wearable devices, Physical layer
National Category
Natural Sciences
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:ri:diva-45152DOI: 10.1145/3396870.3400010Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85086719112ISBN: 9781450380133 (print)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:ri-45152DiVA, id: diva2:1453887
Conference
6th ACM Workshop on Wearable Systems and Applications, WearSys 2020, Part of MobiSys 2020, 19 June 2020
2020-07-132020-07-132023-06-08Bibliographically approved