TY - JOUR
T1 - Information-Centric Networking in Wireless Environments
T2 - Security Risks and Challenges
AU - Nour, Boubakr
AU - Mastorakis, Spyridon
AU - Ullah, Rehmat
AU - Stergiou, Nicholas
N1 - Funding Information:
Acknowledgments This work was partially supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIGMS/P20GM109090), the National Science Foundation under award CNS-2016714, and the Nebraska University Collaboration Initiative.
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PY - 2021/4
Y1 - 2021/4
N2 - Information-Centric Networking (ICN) has emerged as a paradigm to cope with the lack of built-in security primitives and efficient mechanisms for content distribution of today's Internet. However, deploying ICN in a wireless environment poses a different set of challenges compared to a wired environment, especially when it comes to security. In this article, we present the security issues that may arise and the attacks that may occur from different points of view when ICN is deployed in wireless environments. The discussed attacks may target both applications and the ICN network itself by exploiting elements of the ICN architecture, such as content names and in-network content caches. Furthermore, we discuss potential solutions to the presented issues and countermeasures to the presented attacks. Finally, we identify future research opportunities and directions.
AB - Information-Centric Networking (ICN) has emerged as a paradigm to cope with the lack of built-in security primitives and efficient mechanisms for content distribution of today's Internet. However, deploying ICN in a wireless environment poses a different set of challenges compared to a wired environment, especially when it comes to security. In this article, we present the security issues that may arise and the attacks that may occur from different points of view when ICN is deployed in wireless environments. The discussed attacks may target both applications and the ICN network itself by exploiting elements of the ICN architecture, such as content names and in-network content caches. Furthermore, we discuss potential solutions to the presented issues and countermeasures to the presented attacks. Finally, we identify future research opportunities and directions.
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U2 - 10.1109/MWC.001.2000245
DO - 10.1109/MWC.001.2000245
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85103900051
SN - 1536-1284
VL - 28
SP - 121
EP - 127
JO - IEEE Wireless Communications
JF - IEEE Wireless Communications
IS - 2
M1 - 9397267
ER -