PIETRO SPADACCINO

Dottore di ricerca

ciclo: XXXVI


supervisore: Francesca Cuomo
relatore: prof. Francesca Cuomo

Titolo della tesi: Challenges and Opportunities in LoRaWAN Security: Exploring Protocol Vulnerabilities, Privacy Threats and the Role of Edge Computing

The Internet of Things (IoT) paradigm is nowadays adopted by many applications, involving several communication technologies. In this context, Low-Power Wide-Area Network (LPWAN) protocols are quickly developing, achieving high range communication while maintaining a low energy consumption. Such protocols had to be designed from scratch to cope with the scarce computational resources offered by an IoT device. LoRaWAN is one of the most rapidly expanding LPWAN protocols, thanks to its low cost of devices and operation. During the years, LoRaWAN underwent extensive security assessments, discovering and mitigating new vulnerabilities, and the newest standard version 1.1 is considered to be secure. However, in this thesis we discover new vulnerabilities that could be exploited by a malicious third party to achieve different goals. One vulnerability deals with a Denial-of-Service of downlink messages, impacting application operation as well as network control. The other one deals with the de-anonymization of a device, discovering the correlation between DevAddr and DevEUI, causing information leakages and privacy concerns. Moreover, we consider the role of Edge computing in LoRaWAN and how one can leverage it in order to enhance the security and to optimize network operation in a LoRaWAN environment.

Produzione scientifica

11573/1701857 - 2023 - Analysis and emulation of BGP hijacking events
Spadaccino, Pietro; Bruzzese, Sara; Cuomo, Francesca; Luciani, Flavio - 04b Atto di convegno in volume
congresso: 2nd International Intelligence Provisioning for Network and Service Management in Softwarized Networks (IPSN 2023) (Miami FL USA)
libro: Proceedings of IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium 2023, NOMS 2023 - (978-1-6654-7716-1)

11573/1649369 - 2022 - Ruling Out IoT Devices in LoRaWAN
Locatelli, Pierluigi; Spadaccino, Pietro; Cuomo, Francesca - 04b Atto di convegno in volume
congresso: IEEE Conference on Computer Communications Workshops (Online)
libro: INFOCOM WKSHPS - (978-1-6654-0926-1)

11573/1625338 - 2022 - LoRaWAN Behaviour Analysis through Dataset Traffic Investigation
Spadaccino, Pietro; Crinò, Francesco Giuseppe; Cuomo, Francesca - 01a Articolo in rivista
rivista: SENSORS (Basel : Molecular Diversity Preservation International (MDPI), 2001-) pp. 1-21 - issn: 1424-8220 - wos: WOS:000781461100001 (9) - scopus: 2-s2.0-85126743315 (10)

11573/1672426 - 2022 - Intrusion detection systems for IoT. Opportunities and challenges offered by Edge Computing
Spadaccino, Pietro; Cuomo, Francesca - 01a Articolo in rivista
rivista: Journal on Future and Evolving Technologies (ITU) pp. 1-13 - issn: - wos: (0) - scopus: (0)

11573/1616151 - 2022 - Discovery privacy threats via device de-anonymization in LoRaWAN
Spadaccino, Pietro; Garlisi, Domenico; Cuomo, Francesca; Pillon, Giorgio; Pisani, Patrizio - 01a Articolo in rivista
rivista: COMPUTER COMMUNICATIONS (Butterworth Heinemann Publishers:Linacre House Jordan Hill, Oxford OX2 8DP United Kingdom:011 44 1865 314569, EMAIL: bhmarketing@repp.co.uk, INTERNET: http://www.laxtonsprices.co.uk, Fax: 011 44 1865 314569) pp. 1-10 - issn: 0140-3664 - wos: WOS:000806644700001 (5) - scopus: 2-s2.0-85126145080 (6)

11573/1672443 - 2022 - Privacy monitoring of LoRaWAN devices through traffic stream analysis
Terenzi, Francesco; Spadaccino, Pietro; Cuomo, Francesca - 04b Atto di convegno in volume
congresso: 23rd International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks, WoWMoM 2022 (Virtual)
libro: 2022 IEEE 23rd International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks - (978-1-6654-0876-9)

11573/1616155 - 2021 - Hijacking downlink path selection in LoRaWAN
Locatelli, Pierluigi; Spadaccino, Pietro; Cuomo, Francesca - 04b Atto di convegno in volume
congresso: 2021 IEEE Global Communications Conference, GLOBECOM 2021 (Madrid; Spain)
libro: 2021 IEEE Global Communications Conference, GLOBECOM 2021. Proceedings - (978-1-7281-8104-2)

11573/1559019 - 2021 - Discovery privacy threats via device de-anonymization in LoRaWAN
Spadaccino, Pietro; Garlisi, Domenico; Cuomo, Francesca; Pillon, Giorgio; Pisani, Patrizio - 04b Atto di convegno in volume
congresso: 19th Mediterranean Communication and Computer Networking Conference (Virtuale)
libro: Mediterranean Communication and Computer Networking Conference - ()

11573/1386425 - 2020 - Epidemic and timer-based message dissemination in VANETs: A performance comparison
Spadaccino, P.; Cuomo, F.; Baiocchi, A. - 01a Articolo in rivista
rivista: ELECTRONICS (Basel : MDPI) pp. 1-19 - issn: 2079-9292 - wos: WOS:000539533200054 (7) - scopus: 2-s2.0-85083044280 (11)

11573/1291720 - 2019 - EPIC: an epidemic based dissemination algorithm for VANETs
Spadaccino, Pietro; Conti, Pierfrancesco; Boninsegna, Elia; Cuomo, Francesca; Baiocchi, Andrea - 04b Atto di convegno in volume
congresso: 1st ACM MobiHoc Workshop on Technologies, mOdels, and Protocols for Cooperative Connected Cars (Catania)
libro: 1st ACM MobiHoc Workshop on Technologies, mOdels, and Protocols for Cooperative Connected Cars - (9781450368070)

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