Remote service discovery and control for ubiquitous service environments in next-generation networks

Doktorgradsavhandling i informasjons- og kommunikasjonsteknologi, Universitetet i Agder, Grimstad, 201

Remote service discovery and control for ubiquitous service environments in next-generation networks

Doktorgradsavhandling i informasjons- og kommunikasjonsteknologi, Universitetet i Agder, Grimstad, 201

Architectures réseaux pour le partage de contenus multimédias avec garantie de qualité de service

Le succès des services de partage de contenus multimédias sur internet témoigne de l'intérêt des utilisateurs à partager leurs expériences personnelles à travers des fichiers multimédias (photo, vidéo, musique). Les solutions actuelles sont basées essentiellement sur des serveurs web et souffrent d'un manque de QoS, de sécurité et de confidentialité. Plusieurs travaux de recherche ont été menés pour proposer des architectures réseaux d'accès à distance pour de tels services. Ils sont soit trop complexes pour être utilisés par des services dédiés au grand public, soit inadaptés au contexte de partage de contenus. Dans cette thèse nous présentons un système de mise en relation réseau entre équipements distants pour permettre l'échange de contenus multimédias, ceci en garantissant à la fois la sécurité, la confidentialité et la qualité de service. Étant donné que ces contenus sont gourmands en ressources réseaux, le système proposera une garantie de QoS de bout en bout pour les sessions établies. Il offrira également une sécurisation de la mise en relation et des échanges. Nous avons défini une architecture générique de notre système. Ensuite, nous avons proposé deux déclinaisons techniques, leur conception et leur implémentation, une première utilisant le Framework IMS (IP Multimédia Subsystem) et une deuxième adaptée au déploiement sur internet. Le système conçu constitue la brique réseau du service de partage de contenus à distance étudié dans le cadre du projet européen Feel@Home (" Full Extended Experience of living at Home ").The success of multimedia content sharing services on the Internet attests the users' interest to share their personal experiences through media files (photo, video, music). Current solutions are mainly based on web servers and suffer from a serious lack of security and privacy. Several research studies have been conducted to provide network remote access architectures for this service. They are either very complicated to use by services dedicated to the public, or inappropriate for the context of content sharing. This thesis presents a set of architectures and systems for network session establishment between remote devices to exchange multimedia content, which guarantees security, confidentiality and QoS. As the multimedia contents can be greedy in network resources, the system will guaranteed an end to end QoS for session established. It will also secure the session establishment and content exchange. We have defined two generic architectures for such a system. Then we have proposed two technical realizations for these architectures, one using the Framework IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem) and a second one adapted to the deployment on the Internet. Our system was integrated to the remote content sharing service studied in the european project Feel@Home ("Full Extended Experience of Living at Home")

Simple and secured access to networked home appliances via internet using SSL, BioHashing and single Authentication Server

This thesis describes a web-based application that will enable users to access their networked home appliances over the Internet in an easy, secured, accessible and cost effective manner, using the user's iris image only for authentication. As Internet is increasingly gaining significance and popularity in our daily lives, various home networking technologies also started gaining importance from consumers, which helped in facilitating interoperability, sharing of services and exchange of information between different electronic devices at home. As a result, the demand to be able to access home appliances or security cameras over the Internet gradually grew. In this research, we propose an efficient, secured, low-cost and user-friendly method to access networked home appliances over the Internet, providing strong, well integrated, three levels of security to the whole application and user data. According to our design, the user's iris data after hashing (using BioHashing) is sent through a secure communication channel utilizing Secure Sockets Layer v-3.0. The deterministic feature sequence from the iris image is extracted using 1D log-Gabor filters and while performing BioHashing, the orthonormalization of the pseudorandom number is implemented employing Gram-Schmidt orthonormalization algorithm. In addition to this protected data transfer mechanism, we propose the design of an Authentication Server that can be shared among multiple homes, allowing numerous users to access their home appliances in a trouble-free and secured manner. It can also bring down the cost of commercial realization of this endeavor and increase its accessibility without compromising on system security. We demonstrate that the recognition efficiency of this system is computationally effective with equal error rate (EER) of 0% and 6.75% (average) in two separate conditions on CASIA 1 and CASIA 2 iris image datasets