Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Hofer, Florian, Russo, Barbara
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
Subjects:
Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.20494
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
_version_ 1866911228257894400
author Hofer, Florian
Russo, Barbara
author_facet Hofer, Florian
Russo, Barbara
contents Cyber-physical systems and the Internet of Things (IoT) are key technologies in the Industry 4.0 vision. They incorporate sensors and actuators to interact with the physical environment. However, when creating and interconnecting components to form a heterogeneous smart systems architecture, these face challenges in cybersecurity. This paper presents an experimental investigation of architectural configurations for a LoRaWAN-based Smart-Lighting project, aimed at verifying and improving the system's robustness against attacks. We assess the system's robustness in a series of iterative experiments conducted both in-vitro and on-site. The results show that most attacks on a LoRaWAN network are unsuccessful, also highlighting unresolved issues with the installed products. The most successful attacks are high-power jamming attacks within a few meters of the target, which, in the case of gateways, can be mitigated through gateway redundancy.
format Preprint
id arxiv_https___arxiv_org_abs_2510_20494
institution arXiv
publishDate 2025
record_format arxiv
spellingShingle On the cybersecurity of LoRaWAN-based system: a Smart-Lighting case study
Hofer, Florian
Russo, Barbara
Cryptography and Security
Networking and Internet Architecture
Cyber-physical systems and the Internet of Things (IoT) are key technologies in the Industry 4.0 vision. They incorporate sensors and actuators to interact with the physical environment. However, when creating and interconnecting components to form a heterogeneous smart systems architecture, these face challenges in cybersecurity. This paper presents an experimental investigation of architectural configurations for a LoRaWAN-based Smart-Lighting project, aimed at verifying and improving the system's robustness against attacks. We assess the system's robustness in a series of iterative experiments conducted both in-vitro and on-site. The results show that most attacks on a LoRaWAN network are unsuccessful, also highlighting unresolved issues with the installed products. The most successful attacks are high-power jamming attacks within a few meters of the target, which, in the case of gateways, can be mitigated through gateway redundancy.
title On the cybersecurity of LoRaWAN-based system: a Smart-Lighting case study
topic Cryptography and Security
Networking and Internet Architecture
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.20494