A Comprehensive Taxonomy and Analysis of IEEE 802.15.4 Attacks

Table 1

Comparative analysis of IEEE 802.15.4 PHY layer attacks.

Attack	Energy efficiency	Effectiveness	Stealthiness	Primary security goals
				Integrity	Availability
Wide-Band Denial	Low [3]	High	Low [3]	×	√ [7]
Constant Jamming	Low [6]	High	Low [6]
Deceptive Jamming	Low [6]	High	Moderate [6]
Random Jamming	Moderate [6]	Moderate [6]	Moderate [6]
Interrupt Jamming	High [5]	High [5]	High [4]
Activity Jamming and Scan Jamming	Moderate [5]	High	Moderate [5]
Node-Specific Denial and Message-Specific Denial	High	High	High
Message Manipulation Attacks	No enough information			√ [8]	×
Steganography Attacks	Dependent			×	×