Preallocated Duplicate Name Prefix Detection Mechanism Using Naming Pool in CCN Based Mobile IoT Networks

The emergence of mobile Internet of Things (IoT) has brought much more convenience to our daily life than ever before, modern intelligent vehicles are usually equipped with various mobile IoT components or devices. However, when we are enjoying the convenience from the rapid development of mobile IoT services, our privacy can be misused by attackers in an easier way. In this paper, we devise a query scheme with intelligent vehicle privacy guarantees, which enables a vehicle to acquire accurate query service from the service provider (SP) without providing its explicit private information, such as location or query interest privacy. And more than that, we introduce network coding for the first time to make our scheme applicable to a more sophisticated top-K query by multiple vehicles cooperation in mobile IoT. Furthermore, we also consider the unnecessary reveal issue of service data at SP side since the data is its asset. Performance analysis and experiments verify the validity of our scheme and demonstrate a better accuracy and efficiency compared with existing solutions in mobile IoT scenario.

The emergence of the mobile Internet of Things (IoT) has made our lives smarter, relying on its various mobile IoT devices and services provided. However, with the explosively emerging mobile IoT services, malicious attackers can access them in an unauthorized way. In this paper, we designed an Efficient Anonymous User Authentication (E-AUA) protocol between the users and servers based on multiserver architectures, which contain multiple servers to address the problem of network congestion in mobile IoT. Furthermore, the E-AUA protocol was designed with a dual messages mechanism with strong anti-attack ability, lower communication and computation costs. Comparing with the state of the art protocols, our E-AUA protocol reduced both communication and computation costs. We also provided a security analysis to demonstrate that our E-AUA protocol is secure and meets a variety of security requirements in a motivated mobile IoT scenario.

A Lightweight Forwarding Strategy for Named Data Networking in Low-end IoT

Background/Objectives: Internet of Things (IoT) has made significant changes in the real world and penetrates all aspects of human life. The user acceptance of IoT is enormously high and its widespread usage is because of the availability of smart phones and tablets. Wide adoption of IoT in the applications of each field always collecting sensitive information and provide a larger surface for intruders. So privacy preserved authentication and access controls are big challenges in its research area. Methods/Statistical Analysis: In this paper we introduced a novel algorithm based on Zero Knowledge Protocol and Accumulated Hashing to provide secure authentication to sensor enabled mobile devices in IoT. Also for ensuring confidentiality in communication proposed a new method for key exchange using current time. Findings: The proposed method fulfills the requirements of resource and battery constrained mobile devices in IoT when compared with traditional authentication and access control mechanisms for other applications.

Current Internet architecture is becoming inadequate for new requirements of highly scalable and efficient distribution of contents. Information Centric Networking (ICN) is one of the alternatives for the Next Generation Internet (NGI), which focuses mainly on contents. In-network caching is one of the major attributes of ICN, which allows contents to be cached in any ICN node. Any user can access ICN contents from different distributed locations. This attribute maximizes the problem of unauthorized access to ICN contents. In this paper, we propose a Decentralized Access Control Protocol for ICN architectures (DACPI). In this protocol, fewer public messages are needed for access control enforcement between ICN subscribers and ICN nodes than the existing access control protocols. DACPI depends on ICN self-certifying naming scheme. We perform security analysis on DACPI for the following attacks: man-in-the-middle, forward security, replay attacks, integrity, and privacy violations. According to the security analysis, DACPI prevents unauthorized access to ICN contents with fewer messages passed.

Recently, Internet of Things (IoT) has drawn a great deal of attention and is envisioned in various sectors in the near future due to its promising benefits. However, the constant and rapid growth in IoT devices also brings new challenges due to constrained power and resources associated to them. One of the challenges is to provide seamless connectivity in mobile IoT. Secondly, IoT devices may stream enormous amount of data; hence, providing a solution that can effectively reduce service cost of data transfer. Finally, there are challenges in management and deployment of services running at mobile IoT Edge Gateway. In this context, containerized virtualization solution could play a key role in support of efficient management and deployment of microservices to provide seamless connectivity. This paper proposes a lightweight container-based virtualization technology for IoT, which employs Docker container-based microservices architecture for effectively deploying applications in a virtualized ecosystem. We evaluated the performance of the proposed solution on real IoT testbed using Raspberry Pi 3 as a mobile IoT Edge Gateway for network handover decision making among various alternatives, such as Wi-Fi, Radio, and Satellite. The results demonstrated better performance compared with the native environment, i.e., the one without introduction of a virtualization layer. The results also showed that the Docker container produces negligible resource overhead and can be used on resource constrained mobile IoT Edge Gateway devices like Raspberry Pi 3 for efficiently managing IoT application and services.

A survey of Internet of Things communication using ICN: A use case perspective

IoT (Internet of Things) technically connects billions of entities to the Internet. The IoT is divided between the technology and the service itself. As a result, great efforts are needed to join data from many contexts and services. This reason has motivated proposals to develop solutions that can overcome existing issues of limitations for mobility, security, reliability and scalability of IoT. These billions of devices are interconnected to each other either using unicast, multicast or broadcast communications, and mixture of static and mobile communications. This paper aims to investigate the parameters of mobility performance in handover process for mobile multicast IoT environment. Investigation is done quantitatively by evaluating the parameters of handover process for IoT in two networking protocols that are possible to support acceptable mobility performance for IoT. The protocols are ICN (Information Centric Networking) and Proxy Mobile Internet Protocol. The evaluation parameters include packet loss and service recovery time. The metrics are extracted from the handover process flow for each network protocol topology. The service recovery time parameter is assumed as the time duration for each message to travel from sender to receiver, while packet loss parameter depends on the packet arrival rate and service recovery time. The results show that the ICN performs better than Proxy Mobile Internet Protocol.

A trust management scheme to secure mobile information centric networks

As we are moving towards the internet of things (IoT), a significant growth of stationary and mobile sensing and computing IoT devices continuously generate enormous amounts of contextual information, e.g., environmental data. Contextual information collection, reasoning, and inference plays critical role in IoT. In this paper, we consider the contextual information collection and harvesting problem in which stationary sensing and computing devices (sources), which are incapable to communicate with each other either due to their long distance, or for energy efficiency, or spatially dispersed network, rely on mobile IoT devices (collectors) to ‘drain’ their acquired contextual information. (e.g., generating from IoT applications: smart cities, smart metering, and smart agriculture). At the contact instances with the collectors, sources have to decide whether to deliver the contextual information obtained so far or postpone their delivery for later hitting epochs in an effort to sense fresher (or more critical) contextual information. We rest on the principles of Optimal Stopping Theory and propose an intelligent context collection scheme in IoT environments. We show through simulations with synthetic and real mobility data the effectiveness of our scheme compared to other approaches.

Slicing a network is a key innovative feature to deliver 5G (the fifth generation) services. 5G aims to enhance mobile broadband, deliver massive machine-type and low latency communications with ultra-reliability. This generation manages the huge scale of the devices of the Mobile Internet of Things (MIoT). 5G has been invented for controlling security addressed to the threats found in 2G/3G/4G networks consequently. 5G preventive measures include enhanced authentication capabilities, subscriber identity protection, and additional security techniques. New 5G network technologies introduced new threats for the industrial organizations. GSMA (The GSM Association) announced that Mobile Internet of Things (IoT) requires more security in 5G as the number of IoT devices and connections are exponentially increasing. "The IoT needs to be securely coded, deployed and managed throughout its lifecycle". Common IoT architecture is subjected to the following common attacks: 1) attacks on IoT devices through the running application; 2) remote attacks over the internet; 3) physical attacks; 4) attacks through the cloud 5) attacks through Wi-Fi or mobile air interface. Moreover, IoT devices are being used to form DDoS attacks where each IoT device forms the specific data resulting a volume-based attacks. Blockchains are considered as a main solution to solve various issues in 5G such as Mobile IoT security problems and Electronic Healthcare Records sharing problems. We analyse Hashing based Post-Quantum Signatures for enhancing blockchain security.

Mobile edge computing (MEC) is a promising approach to execute delay-sensitive and computation-intensive applications in the resource-limited IoT mobile devices (IMDs) by offloading computing tasks to MEC servers. In this paper, we propose a neighbor-aided cooperative offloading scheme with delay constraint to improve the energy efficiency in MEC-based Internet of Things (IoT) networks. The network consists of a target IMD with some IMD neighbors, and an access point integrated with an MEC server. The latency-constrained tasks in the IMD can be partially offloaded to and executed by the selected neighboring IMD or the MEC server. Different from other works, our proposed offloading scheme selects the most energy-efficient one from all the neighboring IMDs as the offloading helper. Specifically, we formulate an optimization problem to minimize the total energy consumption while satisfying the computation delay constraint of each task, and obtain the most energy-efficient neighbor with the optimized division of tasks by solving the formulated problem. Moreover, we design an easy neighbor selection scheme with lower time complexity by the weighted value of the transmission rate for each neighbor. Numerical results show that the proposed scheme outperforms benchmark schemes significantly in terms of energy consumption and the supported maximum task length.

Internet-of-Things (IoT) technology is envisioned to enable a variety of real-time applications by interconnecting billions of sensors/devices. These IoT devices rely on low-power wide-area wireless connectivity for transmitting, mostly fixed- but small-size, status updates of the random processes observed by them. Owing to their ubiquity, cellular networks are seen as a natural candidate for providing reliable wireless connectivity to IoT devices. Given the massive number of IoT devices, enabling non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) for the mobile users and IoT devices is appealing in terms of the efficient utilization of spectrum compared to the orthogonal multiple access (OMA). For instance, the uplink NOMA can also be configured such that the mobile users adapt their transmission rates depending upon the channel conditions while the IoT devices transmit at a fixed rate. For this setting, we analyze the ergodic capacity of the mobile users and the mean local delay of IoT devices using stochastic geometry. Our analysis demonstrates that the aforementioned NOMA configuration provides better ergodic capacity for mobile users compared to OMA when delay constraint of IoT devices is strict. We also show that NOMA supports a larger packet size at IoT devices than OMA under the same delay constraint.

The Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) is the network of medical devices, hardware infrastructure, and software applications used to connect the healthcare information technology. Massive traffic growth and user expectations cause challenges in the current exhausting models of IoMT data. To reduce the IoMT traffic, Information Centric Network (ICN) is a suitable technique. ICN uses persistent naming multicast communication that reduces the response time. ICN in IoMT provides a promising feature to reduce the overhead due to the distribution of commonly accessed contents. Some parameters such as energy consumption, communication cost, etc., influence the performance of sensors in the IoMT network. Excessive and unbalanced energy consumption degrades the network performance and lifetime. This article presents a framework called Dynamic Cache Scheme (DCS) that implements energy-efficient cache scheduling in IoMT over ICN to reduce network traffic. The proposed framework establishes a balance between the multi-hop traffic and data item freshness. The technique improves the freshness of data; thus, updated data are provided to the end-users via the effective utilization of caching in IoMT. The proposed framework is tested on important parameters, i.e., cache-hit-ratio, stretch, and content retrieval latency. The results obtained are compared with the state-of-the-art models. Results’ analysis shows that the proposed framework outperforms the compared models in terms of cache-hit-ratio, stretch, and content retrieval latency by 59.42%, 32.66%, and 18.8%, respectively. In the future, it is intended to explore the applicability of DCS in more scenarios and optimize further.

The Distance-based Content Routing (DCR) protocol is introduced, which enables routers to maintain multiple loop-free routes to the nearest instances of a named data object or name prefix in an information centric network (ICN), and establish content delivery trees over which all or some instances of the same named data object or name prefix can be contacted. In contrast to all prior routing solutions for ICNs, DCR operates without requiring routers to establish overlays, knowing the network topology, using complete paths to content replicas, or knowing about all the sites storing replicas of named content. It is shown that DCR is correct and that is orders of magnitude more scalable than recent name-based routing approaches for ICNs, in terms of the time and signaling overhead needed to obtain correct routing to named content.