Half-Duplex Attack: An Effectual Attack Modelling in D2D Communication

TL;DR

This paper introduces a novel half-duplex attack model targeting downlink D2D communication in future wireless networks, analyzing its success probability and security implications compared to full duplex attacks.

Contribution

It presents a new half-duplex attack scheme specific to downlink D2D communication and evaluates its effectiveness using Poisson distribution analysis.

Findings

Half-duplex attack has a lower failure rate than full duplex attack.

The attack specifically targets downlink resource spoofing.

Analysis shows the attack's probability of success varies with network parameters.

Abstract

The visualization of future generation Wireless Communication Network WCN redirects the presumption of onward innovations, the fulfillment of user demands in the form of high data rates, energy efficiency, low latency, and long-range services. To content these demands, various technologies such as massive MIMO Multiple Input Multiple Output, UDN Ultra Dense Network, spectrum sharing, D2D Device to Device communication were improvised in the next generation WCN. In comparison to previous technologies, these technologies exhibit flat architecture, the involvement of clouds in the network, centralized architecture incorporating small cells which creates vulnerable breaches initiating menaces to the security of the network. The half-duplex attack is another threat to the WCN, where the resource spoofing mechanism is attained in the downlink phase of D2D communication. Instead of triggering an attack on both uplink and downlink, solely downlink is targeted by the attacker. This scheme allows the reduced failed attempt rate of the attacker as compared to the conventional attacks. The analysis is determined on the basis of Poissons distribution to determine the probability of failed attempts of half duplex attack in contrast to a full duplex attack