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Authors:
Yuto Ikeda
Hiroshi Koide
Keywords: IoT; Mesh Network; Moving Target Defense; AODV.
Abstract:
Mesh networking has recently garnered significant attention in the Internet of Things (IoT) domain. In a mesh network, the nodes are interconnected in a mesh topology; compared to the star topology traditionally employed in many IoT systems, it offers greater fault tolerance through dynamic routing and an extended communication range. Although these advantages have led to the widespread adoption of mesh networks, the practice of forwarding packets across heterogeneous devices introduces notable security vulnerabilities. This paper presents the design and implementation of an IoT communication scheme that integrates Moving Target Defense (MTD) mechanisms—previously studied mainly in IP networks—into mesh-based IoT environments. The implemented scheme improves security by extending the conventional Ad hoc On-demand distance vector (AODV) protocol and applying MTD to route selection. In this method, multiple candidate paths are discovered during route exploration and one route is randomly selected for each packet when forwarding packets. The scheme mitigates man-in-the-middle and Denial-of-Service (DoS) attacks originating from a single compromised node by dynamically selecting and rotating among multiple routing paths. To evaluate performance, we implemented the proposed method in Python for Raspberry Pi and we measure and compare the processing time of the proposed scheme with that of ordinary simple Ad hoc On-demand Distance Vector (AODV) routing.
Pages: 24 to 30
Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2025
Publication date: September 28, 2025
Published in: conference
ISSN: 2519-8599
ISBN: 978-1-68558-295-1
Location: Lisbon, Portugal
Dates: from September 28, 2025 to October 2, 2025