A Review and Taxonomy on Security Measures in D2D IoT Networks

Device to Device Networks are being developed for reducing the load on existing wireless networks. The main idea is to distribute the load so as to avoid network congestion. Device-to-device (D2D) communication is expected to play a significant role in upcoming networks as it will reduce the burden from the cellular systems. This may make big data applications easier. However the D2D networks don’t use the security provided by cellular networks. Hence there is a chance of attacks. The major attack in D2D devices is the eavesdropping attack in which mobile hosts share the same wireless medium and broadcast signals over airwaves, which can be easily intercepted by receivers tuned to the proper frequency. Thus, the attacker can read exchanged messages and is able to inject fake messages to manipulate other users. This paper investigates the salient approaches of D2D networks in the context of security and access control.