Information-Centric Networking in Wireless Environments: Security Risks and Challenges

TL;DR

This paper examines security risks and challenges of deploying Information-Centric Networking in wireless environments, analyzing potential attacks, vulnerabilities, and possible countermeasures to enhance security.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive analysis of security issues specific to wireless ICN deployment, including attack vectors and potential solutions, which was lacking in prior work.

Findings

Identification of key security vulnerabilities in wireless ICN

Analysis of attack methods targeting ICN architecture elements

Discussion of countermeasures and future research directions

Abstract

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 paper, 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.