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An IoT Architecture Leveraging Digital Twins: Compromised Node Detection Scenario
Modern IoT (Internet of Things) environments with thousands of low-end and
diverse IoT nodes with complex interactions among them and often deployed in
remote and/or wild locations present some unique challenges that make
traditional node compromise detection services less effective. This paper
presents the design, implementation and evaluation of a fog-based architecture
that utilizes the concept of a digital-twin to detect compromised IoT nodes
exhibiting malicious behaviors by either producing erroneous data and/or being
used to launch network intrusion attacks to hijack other nodes eventually
causing service disruption. By defining a digital twin of an IoT infrastructure
at a fog server, the architecture is focused on monitoring relevant information
to save energy and storage space. The paper presents a prototype implementation
for the architecture utilizing malicious behavior datasets to perform
misbehaving node classification. An extensive accuracy and system performance
evaluation was conducted based on this prototype. Results show good accuracy
and negligible overhead especially when employing deep learning techniques such
as MLP (multilayer perceptron).Comment: This work has been submitted to the IEEE for possible publicatio
City Data Fusion: Sensor Data Fusion in the Internet of Things
Internet of Things (IoT) has gained substantial attention recently and play a
significant role in smart city application deployments. A number of such smart
city applications depend on sensor fusion capabilities in the cloud from
diverse data sources. We introduce the concept of IoT and present in detail ten
different parameters that govern our sensor data fusion evaluation framework.
We then evaluate the current state-of-the art in sensor data fusion against our
sensor data fusion framework. Our main goal is to examine and survey different
sensor data fusion research efforts based on our evaluation framework. The
major open research issues related to sensor data fusion are also presented.Comment: Accepted to be published in International Journal of Distributed
Systems and Technologies (IJDST), 201
An Adaptable and Unsupervised TinyML Anomaly Detection System for Extreme Industrial Environments
Industrial assets often feature multiple sensing devices to keep track of their status by monitoring certain physical parameters. These readings can be analyzed with machine learning (ML) tools to identify potential failures through anomaly detection, allowing operators to take appropriate corrective actions. Typically, these analyses are conducted on servers located in data centers or the cloud. However, this approach increases system complexity and is susceptible to failure in cases where connectivity is unavailable. Furthermore, this communication restriction limits the approach’s applicability in extreme industrial environments where operating conditions affect communication and access to the system. This paper proposes and evaluates an end-to-end adaptable and configurable anomaly detection system that uses the Internet of Things (IoT), edge computing, and Tiny-MLOps methodologies in an extreme industrial environment such as submersible pumps. The system runs on an IoT sensing Kit, based on an ESP32 microcontroller and MicroPython firmware, located near the data source. The processing pipeline on the sensing device collects data, trains an anomaly detection model, and alerts an external gateway in the event of an anomaly. The anomaly detection model uses the isolation forest algorithm, which can be trained on the microcontroller in just 1.2 to 6.4 s and detect an anomaly in less than 16 milliseconds with an ensemble of 50 trees and 80 KB of RAM. Additionally, the system employs blockchain technology to provide a transparent and irrefutable repository of anomalies
Towards fostering the role of 5G networks in the field of digital health
A typical healthcare system needs further participation with patient monitoring, vital signs sensors and other medical devices. Healthcare moved from a traditional central hospital to scattered patients. Healthcare systems receive help from emerging technology innovations such as fifth generation (5G) communication infrastructure: internet of things (IoT), machine learning (ML), and artificial intelligence (AI). Healthcare providers benefit from IoT capabilities to comfort patients by using smart appliances that improve the healthcare level they receive. These IoT smart healthcare gadgets produce massive data volume. It is crucial to use very high-speed communication networks such as 5G wireless technology with the increased communication bandwidth, data transmission efficiency and reduced communication delay and latency, thus leading to strengthen the precise requirements of healthcare big data utilities. The adaptation of 5G in smart healthcare networks allows increasing number of IoT devices that supplies an augmentation in network performance. This paper reviewed distinctive aspects of internet of medical things (IoMT) and 5G architectures with their future and present sides, which can lead to improve healthcare of patients in the near future
Security at the Edge for Resource-Limited IoT Devices
The Internet of Things (IoT) is rapidly growing, with an estimated 14.4 billion active endpoints in 2022 and a forecast of approximately 30 billion connected devices by 2027. This proliferation of IoT devices has come with significant security challenges, including intrinsic security vulnerabilities, limited computing power, and the absence of timely security updates. Attacks leveraging such shortcomings could lead to severe consequences, including data breaches and potential disruptions to critical infrastructures.
In response to these challenges, this research paper presents the IoT Proxy, a modular component designed to create a more resilient and secure IoT environment, especially in resource-limited scenarios.
The core idea behind the IoT Proxy is to externalize security-related aspects of IoT devices by channeling their traffic through a secure network gateway equipped with different Virtual Network Security Functions (VNSFs). Our solution includes a Virtual Private Network (VPN) terminator and an Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) that uses a machine learning-based technique called oblivious authentication to identify connected devices. The IoT Proxy’s modular, scalable, and externalized security approach creates a more resilient and secure IoT environment, especially for resource-limited IoT devices. The promising experimental results from laboratory testing demonstrate the suitability of IoT Proxy to secure real-world IoT ecosystems
IoT Anomaly Detection Methods and Applications: A Survey
Ongoing research on anomaly detection for the Internet of Things (IoT) is a
rapidly expanding field. This growth necessitates an examination of application
trends and current gaps. The vast majority of those publications are in areas
such as network and infrastructure security, sensor monitoring, smart home, and
smart city applications and are extending into even more sectors. Recent
advancements in the field have increased the necessity to study the many IoT
anomaly detection applications. This paper begins with a summary of the
detection methods and applications, accompanied by a discussion of the
categorization of IoT anomaly detection algorithms. We then discuss the current
publications to identify distinct application domains, examining papers chosen
based on our search criteria. The survey considers 64 papers among recent
publications published between January 2019 and July 2021. In recent
publications, we observed a shortage of IoT anomaly detection methodologies,
for example, when dealing with the integration of systems with various sensors,
data and concept drifts, and data augmentation where there is a shortage of
Ground Truth data. Finally, we discuss the present such challenges and offer
new perspectives where further research is required.Comment: 22 page
Thirty Years of Machine Learning: The Road to Pareto-Optimal Wireless Networks
Future wireless networks have a substantial potential in terms of supporting
a broad range of complex compelling applications both in military and civilian
fields, where the users are able to enjoy high-rate, low-latency, low-cost and
reliable information services. Achieving this ambitious goal requires new radio
techniques for adaptive learning and intelligent decision making because of the
complex heterogeneous nature of the network structures and wireless services.
Machine learning (ML) algorithms have great success in supporting big data
analytics, efficient parameter estimation and interactive decision making.
Hence, in this article, we review the thirty-year history of ML by elaborating
on supervised learning, unsupervised learning, reinforcement learning and deep
learning. Furthermore, we investigate their employment in the compelling
applications of wireless networks, including heterogeneous networks (HetNets),
cognitive radios (CR), Internet of things (IoT), machine to machine networks
(M2M), and so on. This article aims for assisting the readers in clarifying the
motivation and methodology of the various ML algorithms, so as to invoke them
for hitherto unexplored services as well as scenarios of future wireless
networks.Comment: 46 pages, 22 fig
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