Improve documentation on how to run the project

[ecksun]

There seems to be a lack of information on how to run this project, this should be improved.

The best resource at the moment is ./run_test.sh which is probably a good starting point as to how to run most of the simulations.

[philok93]

Hello,
I want to contribute to the project but I would like to ask you some questions. I have been trying to run the simulations and I managed to run it with cooja and not with run_test.sh. I want to understand how attacks are triggered and then check the IDS performance to see if I can get the results of your paper.
My questions are:

1. is there any difference between ContikiIDS-evil/.../udp_sender.c and ContikiIDS/.../udp_sender.c? Because I am trying to understand how the sinkhole/clone/selective forwarding attacks are triggered so that IDS will detect them. Even if I tried cloning the master branch and running ids_demo_simulation, I didn't manage to trigger alarm and have an inconsistency in a node. How can I achieve that?
2. Could you please tell me which files should I check to find the implementation of different attacks? I tried to find the implementation of attacks by cloning "attacks" branch but I didn't find anything about it.
3. I try to understand the logic behind IDS but I need to know, is the message "nodes with outdated information" means that is a possible attack node or it's a normal message?

I will try to make SVELTE work in Contiki 3 but I face many problems. I would really appreciate if you could answer some of my questions to improve this project.

Thank you!

[ecksun]

is there any difference between ContikiIDS-evil/.../udp_sender.c and ContikiIDS/.../udp_sender.c? Because I am trying to understand how the sinkhole/clone/selective forwarding attacks are triggered so that IDS will detect them. Even if I tried cloning the master branch and running ids_demo_simulation, I didn't manage to trigger alarm and have an inconsistency in a node. How can I achieve that?

I'm not entirely sure which udp-senders you are referring to, may I suggest just diffing them?

Could you please tell me which files should I check to find the implementation of different attacks? I tried to find the implementation of attacks by cloning "attacks" branch but I didn't find anything about it.

I seem to have implemented the different attacks on different branches, try checking out the changes made to the different branches.

I try to understand the logic behind IDS but I need to know, is the message "nodes with outdated information" means that is a possible attack node or it's a normal message?

From the code and the docs it seems like it indicates an issue, especially this line: if (!valid_node(&network[i]))

[AndreAlves1996]

1. is there any difference between ContikiIDS-evil/.../udp_sender.c and ContikiIDS/.../udp_sender.c?

Hi @philok93,

Did you manage to find out which kind or firmware difference is there between the required "evil-motes" by Cooja when we try to build a simulation form the project?

[SalalAmjad]

There seems to be a lack of information on how to run this project, this should be improved.

The best resource at the moment is ./run_test.sh which is probably a good starting point as to how to run most of the simulations.

Hi @ecksun,
Can you please tell me how to run simulations using run_test.sh file. How to run Contiki-IDS simulations in cooja? We downloaded this software but don't know how to use it. Please guide me.

[ecksun]

Can you please tell me how to run simulations using run_test.sh file

No, I can't tell you more than what is in the script, I'm sorry.

I would recommend you read it, its not that long. I see that it isn't perfect (unquoted variables for example) but the gist of it should still be quite easy to grasp.