TY - GEN
T1 - Defending battery exhaustion attacks on mobile systems
AU - Shin, Sungyong
AU - Lee, Taek
AU - In, Hoh Peter
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - Battery Exhaustion Attack is a "denial of service" attack on mobile devices, causing more battery discharge than normally necessary. The excessive discharge arises out of the limitation in battery capacity. Researches have been conducted to discover the cause of the abnormal usage of handset battery by employing power estimation techniques. It is also important, however, to automatically respond to the attack and maintain the power discharge at the normal level. In this study, we introduce a method designed to detect the defective process and to self-correct the abnormality by stopping or delaying the suspicious actions. The proposed system monitors system calls and the power usage of a local process, and delays activation of the abnormal system calls until the system calls can be run without hampering the battery life. The benefit of our proposed method lies in that it autonomously protects the expected battery lifespan during a battery exhaustion attack without shutting down operation of falsely detected programs.
AB - Battery Exhaustion Attack is a "denial of service" attack on mobile devices, causing more battery discharge than normally necessary. The excessive discharge arises out of the limitation in battery capacity. Researches have been conducted to discover the cause of the abnormal usage of handset battery by employing power estimation techniques. It is also important, however, to automatically respond to the attack and maintain the power discharge at the normal level. In this study, we introduce a method designed to detect the defective process and to self-correct the abnormality by stopping or delaying the suspicious actions. The proposed system monitors system calls and the power usage of a local process, and delays activation of the abnormal system calls until the system calls can be run without hampering the battery life. The benefit of our proposed method lies in that it autonomously protects the expected battery lifespan during a battery exhaustion attack without shutting down operation of falsely detected programs.
KW - Battery exhaustion attack
KW - System call delay;
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U2 - 10.1109/COMPSAC.2009.158
DO - 10.1109/COMPSAC.2009.158
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:70449651033
SN - 9780769537269
T3 - Proceedings - International Computer Software and Applications Conference
SP - 347
EP - 352
BT - Proceedings - 2009 33rd Annual IEEE International Computer Software and Applications Conference, COMPSAC 2009
T2 - 2009 33rd Annual IEEE International Computer Software and Applications Conference, COMPSAC 2009
Y2 - 20 July 2009 through 24 July 2009
ER -