Information Centric Networking in the IoT: Experiments with NDN in the Wild

This paper explores the feasibility, advantages, and challenges of an ICN-based approach in the Internet of Things. We report on the first NDN experiments in a life-size IoT deployment, spread over tens of rooms on several floors of a building. Based on the insights gained with these experiments, the paper analyses the shortcomings of CCN applied to IoT. Several interoperable CCN enhancements are then proposed and evaluated. We significantly decreased control traffic (i.e., interest messages) and leverage data path and caching to match IoT requirements in terms of energy and bandwidth constraints. Our optimizations increase content availability in case of IoT nodes with intermittent activity. This paper also provides the first experimental comparison of CCN with the common IoT standards 6LoWPAN/RPL/UDP.Comment: 10 pages, 10 figures and tables, ACM ICN-2014 conferenc

Private and Mobile inter-network routing for Wireless Sensor Networks and Internet of Things

In the last few years, using the Internet of Things has been expanded in many areas, such as environmental monitoring, industries, and smart home. Since the Internet of Things has a direct relation to human life, its security is of paramount importance. Therefore, the communication between the nodes should be secured and the valuable private information should be kept private so that the attacker cannot detect the network structure. This article provides a protocol that can handle routing privately. To do this, we use the data structure called Spatial Bloom Filter (SBF). In addition, the proposed protocol uses random identifiers instead of IP addresses, so that an attacker cannot collect network structure information and location of nodes from IP addresses. Using a homomorphic encryption scheme, the protocol prevent attackers from retrieving valuable network information, if they can infiltrate to one or more network nodes. Also, since almost all nodes in the internet of things are mobile, the structure of networks and subnets is constantly changing. The proposed protocol has the ability to manage to route in networks with a dynamic structure

Contracting Service for Industrial Internet

Internet of things (IoT) is an emerging vision of a world, where machines can communicate with each other and with people. Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is a subset of IoT applications used for industrial purposes. Since this vision is relatively new, current IIoT applications do not follow communication standards. Although, many standards have recently been proposed, however none of them are widely accepted. Moreover, all of the device management platforms are proprietary, thus restricting interoperability. This thesis proposes a new web platform for management of devices in terms of access control. To choose the appropriate standard many standards were studied and presented, such as World Wide Web Consortium - Web of Things (W3C WOT) and Light-Weight Machine to Machine (LWM2M). Requirements for this platform were gathered by carefully examining the use cases of smart industrial machines. The underlying principles for the platform is the division of tasks among user groups, e.g., manufacturer and customer. For instance, manufacturers responsibility is to add machines to the platform and assign them to customers; Customer is tasked with defining who has access to their machines by manipulating policies. This web platform was developed and evaluated in line with the requirements and based on LWM2M and Policy Based Communications research

Architecting Information Centric ETSI-M2M systems

International audienceThe European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) released a set of specifications to define a restful architecture for enabling seamless service provisioning across heterogeneous Machine-to-Machine (M2M) systems. The current version of this architecture is strongly centralized, thus requiring new enhancements to its scalability, fault tolerance, and flexibility. To bridge this gap, herein it is presented an Overlay Service Capability Layer, based on Information Centric Networking design. Key features, example use cases and preliminary performance assessments are also discussed to highlight the potential of our approach

Recent Developments in Smart Healthcare

Medicine is undergoing a sector-wide transformation thanks to the advances in computing and networking technologies. Healthcare is changing from reactive and hospital-centered to preventive and personalized, from disease focused to well-being centered. In essence, the healthcare systems, as well as fundamental medicine research, are becoming smarter. We anticipate significant improvements in areas ranging from molecular genomics and proteomics to decision support for healthcare professionals through big data analytics, to support behavior changes through technology-enabled self-management, and social and motivational support. Furthermore, with smart technologies, healthcare delivery could also be made more efficient, higher quality, and lower cost. In this special issue, we received a total 45 submissions and accepted 19 outstanding papers that roughly span across several interesting topics on smart healthcare, including public health, health information technology (Health IT), and smart medicine