Book Chapter Abstract:

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are expected to play a fundamental role in the future Internet-of-Things (IoT), with millions of embedded devices actively exchanging confidential information (e.g., IDs or addresses) with each other in a multi-hop manner. Ensuring secure end-to-end communication channels will be crucial to the success of innovative IoT applications, because they are essential to avoid attacks and exposure of information. End-to-end security solutions, like IPsec or DTLS, do not scale well on WSN devices due to limited resources (e.g., memory, computational capacity). In this chapter TinyTO – an optimized two-way authentication solution for tiny devices – is presented closing the gap between WSN design and end-to-end secured communication TinyTO provides confidentiality and integrity using two-way authentication within a fast and secure handshake. TinyTO works with public-key cryptography and uses Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) for message encryption and authentication. ECC lowers resource consumption and, thus, suits WSN devices with 10 kByte of RAM and 100 kByte of ROM. TinyTO does not need a network-wide shared secret, it is application-independent, and it supports in-network aggregation.

At the 40th Anniversary of the IEEE Conference on Local Computer Nenwtorks (LCN 2015) SmartenIT had been awarded the Best Demo Award for the demonstration entitled "WiFi Offloading and Socially Aware Prefetching on Augmented Home Routers". This award is based on audience voting, not performed by a jury, and has seen approximately 50% of all votes cast for total 9 demonstrations under presentation.

This demonstration showed the RB-HORST prototype running live on real hardware. RB-HORST offers WiFi offloading, video caching, and video prefetching based on social and overlay network predictions. RB-HORST is intended to run on home gateways/routers which are represented in the demo as low power computers. The demo will show the functionality of RB-HORST and how users can interact with the system.

George Petropoulos, Andri Lareida, Sergios Soursos, Michael Seufert, Valentin Burger, Burkhard Stiller: WiFi Offloading and Socially Aware Prefetching on Augmented Home Routers; Demonstration and Extended Abstract, 40th IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN 2015), Clearwater Beach, Florida, U.S.A., October 26-29, 2015. (pdf)

Paper:

On October 5-7, 2015 Manos Dramitinos and George D. Stamoulis participated in the  Kick-off meeting of project 5GEx in Budapest, where they presented SmartenIT work, and particularly the Cloud Federation model and the Inter-Cloud Communication Traffic Management mechanism for possible exploitation of them by project 5GEx. These SmartenIT outcomes raised significant interest, and will be considered for being adopted by project 5GEx, with proper adaptations that we preliminarily discussed and will be further studies.

The paper "Designing Future Networks: The Investigation of Socio-economic Awareness by the Tussle Analysis” by Patrick Poullie, Corinna Schmitt, Burkhard Stiller has been accepted for publication at the 2015 IEEE Conference on Standards for Communications & Networking (CSCN’15) Conference in Tokyo, Japan on October 28, 2015. The paper presents the Tussle Analysis, which is standardized in ITU-T Recommendation Y.3013 “Socio-economic Assessment of Future Networks by Tussle Analysis”. The driving force behind the development of this recommendation was UZH. The Tussle Analysis is the first tool to develop Internet technology and standards to account for socio-economic factors.

Abstract

The Internet enables the interaction of stakeholders of virtually all commercial, industrial, and private sectors. Thereby, innumerable conflicting socio-economic interests collide through the Internet. Since self-interested stakeholders will try enforcing their interests through technological, economical, or judicial means, the Internet technology and related standards must not only be focused on technical engineering goals, but also need to ensure a fair playing field for all stakeholders. This necessity to consider socio-economic factors, when designing technology and standards, is slowly recognized by academia and standardization bodies and highlighted in this paper. The Tussle Analysis is presented as the first tool for assessing such a socioeconomic awareness of Internet technology and related standards. The Tussle Analysis was standardized in Study Group (SG) 13 of the ITU-T and published as Recommendation Y.3013 in 2014. Thus, methods to implement the Tussle Analysis’ three steps are presented and discussed throughout the paper.