Security Evaluation of the Z-Wave Wireless Protocol
@inproceedings{Fouladi2013SecurityEO,
title={Security Evaluation of the Z-Wave Wireless Protocol},
author={Behrang Fouladi and Sahand Ghanoun},
year={2013}
}The Z-Wave wireless communication protocol has been widely used in home automation and wireless sensors networks. Z-Wave is based on a proprietary design and a sole chip vendor. There have been a number of academic and practical security researches on home automation systems based on ZigBee and X10 protocols, however, no public vulnerability research on Z-Wave could be found prior to this work. In this paper, we analyze the Z-Wave protocol stack layers and design a radio packet capture device…
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