A Survey on Sinkhole Attack in RPL

Abstract

Internet of Things (IoT) is an innovative idea intended to perform a complex task. In IoT, the devices are connected to the physical world to collect data. The works performed by the IoT devices are sensing, routing and storing. There are certain drawbacks in the IoT environment and most of the issues are occurring in the routing process. The routing process is performed by the routing protocol. In the process of routing, the attacker node creates some issues in the normal packet transmission process. This paper focuses on the Routing Protocol for Low- Power and Lossy Network (RPL) and some security issues occurring in the routing protocol. A brief discussion on the sinkhole attack in RPL and the issues related to this attack in IoT environment is also given. The sinkhole attack creates network traffic, drops the information and gives fake information. Finally an analytical survey on sinkhole attack is also given in this paper.