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A Public Network Trace of a Control and Automation System
The increasing number of attacks against automation systems such as SCADA and
their network infrastructure have demonstrated that there is a need to secure
those systems. Unfortunately, directly applying existing ICT security
mechanisms to automation systems is hard due to constraints of the latter, such
as availability requirements or limitations of the hardware. Thus, the solution
privileged by researchers is the use of network-based intrusion detection
systems (N-IDS). One of the issue that many researchers encounter is how to
validate and evaluate their N-IDS. Having access to a real and large automation
systems for experimentation is almost impossible as companies are not inclined
to give access to their systems due to obvious concerns. The few public traffic
datasets that could be used for off-line experiments are either synthetic or
collected at small testbeds. In this paper, we will describe and characterize a
public traffic dataset collected at the HVAC management system of a university
campus. Although the dataset contains only packet headers, we believe that it
can help researchers, in particular designers of flow-based IDS, to validate
their solutions under more realistic conditions. The traces can be found on
https://github.com/gkabasele/HVAC_Traces
An eco-solution for track & trace of goods and third party logistics
This paper presents a new economic cost-effective solution known as the Web and telephony based method for tracking and tracing of goods and small and medium sized third party logistic providers. Considering that these companies usually operate on very flat margins, a comparison is made of the available track and trace technologies like GPS, mobile phone approximated GPS and Java based cell tracking in terms of costs, operating risks, and other evaluation criteria
LTE Spectrum Sharing Research Testbed: Integrated Hardware, Software, Network and Data
This paper presents Virginia Tech's wireless testbed supporting research on
long-term evolution (LTE) signaling and radio frequency (RF) spectrum
coexistence. LTE is continuously refined and new features released. As the
communications contexts for LTE expand, new research problems arise and include
operation in harsh RF signaling environments and coexistence with other radios.
Our testbed provides an integrated research tool for investigating these and
other research problems; it allows analyzing the severity of the problem,
designing and rapidly prototyping solutions, and assessing them with
standard-compliant equipment and test procedures. The modular testbed
integrates general-purpose software-defined radio hardware, LTE-specific test
equipment, RF components, free open-source and commercial LTE software, a
configurable RF network and recorded radar waveform samples. It supports RF
channel emulated and over-the-air radiated modes. The testbed can be remotely
accessed and configured. An RF switching network allows for designing many
different experiments that can involve a variety of real and virtual radios
with support for multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) antenna operation. We
present the testbed, the research it has enabled and some valuable lessons that
we learned and that may help designing, developing, and operating future
wireless testbeds.Comment: In Proceeding of the 10th ACM International Workshop on Wireless
Network Testbeds, Experimental Evaluation & Characterization (WiNTECH),
Snowbird, Utah, October 201
Wireless communication, identification and sensing technologies enabling integrated logistics: a study in the harbor environment
In the last decade, integrated logistics has become an important challenge in
the development of wireless communication, identification and sensing
technology, due to the growing complexity of logistics processes and the
increasing demand for adapting systems to new requirements. The advancement of
wireless technology provides a wide range of options for the maritime container
terminals. Electronic devices employed in container terminals reduce the manual
effort, facilitating timely information flow and enhancing control and quality
of service and decision made. In this paper, we examine the technology that can
be used to support integration in harbor's logistics. In the literature, most
systems have been developed to address specific needs of particular harbors,
but a systematic study is missing. The purpose is to provide an overview to the
reader about which technology of integrated logistics can be implemented and
what remains to be addressed in the future
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