Integration and Evaluation of Intrusion Detection for CoAP in Smart City Applications
Communications and Network Security (CNS), 2014 IEEE Conference on, pp.73,78, 29-31 Oct. 2014.
Abstract: The Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP) is a promising candidate for future smart city applications that run on resource-constrained devices. However, additional security means are mandatory to cope with the high security requirements of smart city applications. We present a framework to evaluate lightweight intrusion detection techniques for CoAP applications. This framework combines an OMNeT++ simulation with C/C++ application code that also runs on real hardware. As the result of our work, we used our framework to evaluate intrusion detection techniques for a smart public transport application that uses CoAP. Our first evaluations indicate that a hybrid IDS approach is a favorable choice for smart city applications.
Keywords: Smart city; Critical Infrastructure protection; Intrusion detection; Simulation; OMNeT++