Flávio Meneses, Carlos Guimarães, Daniel Corujo, R. Aguiar
{"title":"SDN-based Mobility Management: Handover Performance Impact in Constrained Devices","authors":"Flávio Meneses, Carlos Guimarães, Daniel Corujo, R. Aguiar","doi":"10.1109/NTMS.2018.8328716","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NTMS.2018.8328716","url":null,"abstract":"The way we use and access the Internet has been changing since its creation, evolving to more dynamic traffic patterns and following new consumption trends such as IP video in mobile scenarios. New requirements towards the underlying network rise, particularly regarding to mobility management support in wireless heterogeneous environments. In this sense, 5G network architectures have begun development empowered by key technologies such as Software Defined Networks (SDN). Pro- gressing from wired-only deployment, SDN has recently become the target of research in wireless environments, with its signalling reaching the mobile node and involving it in the mobility process. It thus becomes important to assess the impact of SDN in mobility management scenarios, under different conditions. This is where this work contributes: it presents a framework using SDN as the mobility management protocol where the content source is mobile, evaluating handover delay and the impact of different threshold configurations for triggering mobility in both network and mobile initiated scenarios. Results showcase the feasibility of the proposed framework, evidencing the impact of OpenFlow in MN deployment.","PeriodicalId":140704,"journal":{"name":"2018 9th IFIP International Conference on New Technologies, Mobility and Security (NTMS)","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126572804","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
José Quevedo, Carlos Guimarães, Rui Ferreira, Alireza Sepas-Moghaddam, Luis Malhadas, R. Aguiar, P. Correia, Daniel Corujo
{"title":"Selectively Accessing Light Field Face Images over Information Centric Networking","authors":"José Quevedo, Carlos Guimarães, Rui Ferreira, Alireza Sepas-Moghaddam, Luis Malhadas, R. Aguiar, P. Correia, Daniel Corujo","doi":"10.1109/NTMS.2018.8328717","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NTMS.2018.8328717","url":null,"abstract":"This paper explores the synergies between a Future Internet network-layer architecture based on Information Centric Networking (ICN), and the usage of Light Field Imaging. Central to this idea is the creation of a symbiotic relationship between content names as the base network information exchange mechanism, and advanced content analysis from the rich image representations obtained by Light Field Imaging. Our work increments the base ICN behavior of allowing endpoints to remotely request content to the network using only its name, and adds the capability of requesting specific aspects inside the content itself (e.g., a person's face in an image). In this work, the main functionalities and requirements associated to a solution combining ICN and Light Field Imaging for addressing video-surveillance scenarios are presented, leading to the conceptualization of the SeLF-ICN (Selectively Accessing Light Field Faces over Information Centric Networking) framework. A first prototype of the framework was developed and deployed allowing the evaluation of the concepts, with results showcasing the feasibility of the proposed solution.","PeriodicalId":140704,"journal":{"name":"2018 9th IFIP International Conference on New Technologies, Mobility and Security (NTMS)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129109295","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An Entropy-based Inverse Tone Mapping Operator for High Dynamic Range Applications","authors":"Pedram Mohammadi, M. Pourazad, P. Nasiopoulos","doi":"10.1109/NTMS.2018.8328678","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NTMS.2018.8328678","url":null,"abstract":"Conversion of existing image and video content to High Dynamic Range (HDR) using inverse Tone Mapping Operator (iTMO) is expected to open new market opportunities for studios and content owners. In this paper, we propose a novel high visual quality iTMO that addresses shortcomings of existing approaches, yielding HDR image quality worth the expectations of the emerging HDR technology. Our method can deal with all types of standard dynamic range (SDR) image content, ranging from dark to bright scenes. Our approach follows the Human Visual System (HVS) characteristic of being more sensitive to luminance changes in dark areas than bright and normal ones, expanding each of these areas accordingly. Our subjective evaluation demonstrates that our proposed operator on average outperforms existing state-of-the-art operators in terms of overall brightness and contrast of the output HDR image.","PeriodicalId":140704,"journal":{"name":"2018 9th IFIP International Conference on New Technologies, Mobility and Security (NTMS)","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115933440","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Location Privacy in Virtual Cell-Equipped Ultra-Dense Networks","authors":"E. Catania, A. L. Corte","doi":"10.1109/NTMS.2018.8328700","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NTMS.2018.8328700","url":null,"abstract":"Ultra-dense Networks are attracting significant interest due to their ability to provide the next generation 5G cellular networks with a high data rate, low delay, and seamless coverage. Several factors, such as interferences, energy constraints, and backhaul bottlenecks may limit wireless networks densification. In this paper, we study the effect of mobile node densification, access node densification, and their aggregation into virtual entities, referred to as virtual cells, on location privacy. Simulations show that the number of tracked mobile nodes might be statistically reduced up to 10 percent by implementing virtual cells. Moreover, experiments highlight that success of tracking attacks has an inverse relationship to the number of moving nodes. The present paper is a preliminary attempt to analyse the effectiveness of cell virtualization to mitigate location privacy threats in ultra-dense networks.","PeriodicalId":140704,"journal":{"name":"2018 9th IFIP International Conference on New Technologies, Mobility and Security (NTMS)","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123993261","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Empowering Light Nodes in Blockchains with Block Summarization","authors":"Asutosh Palai, Meet Vora, Aashaka Shah","doi":"10.1109/NTMS.2018.8328735","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NTMS.2018.8328735","url":null,"abstract":"Blockchains have revolutionized the storage of data in an immutable, transparent and non-centralized way. However, public blockchain systems like the Bitcoin system face a problem of scalability, primarily due to the significant and growing size of its blockchain. This paper introduces a method, termed block summarization, which reduces blockchain storage overhead for systems having transferable transactions. The proposed method allows resource-restricted light nodes to store a form of the blockchain such that it can validate the transactions independently which ultimately reduce dependency on full nodes. This way, we can achieve a middle ground between Simplified Payment Verification (SPV) nodes which can only verify the membership of a transaction in the blockchain, and full nodes with pruning enabled which can only support pruning provided they have an infrastructure of full nodes. We implemented our algorithm for a custom blockchain using Bitcoin blocks and were able to achieve a compression ratio of 0.54.","PeriodicalId":140704,"journal":{"name":"2018 9th IFIP International Conference on New Technologies, Mobility and Security (NTMS)","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116101915","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
D. Nabil, K. Benatchba, Layth Sliman, Yen-Wei Chen
{"title":"Chaff-Points Generation Method Based on Adaptive Genetic Algorithms and Non-Fixed Size Squares Boundaries for Resource Constrained Devices","authors":"D. Nabil, K. Benatchba, Layth Sliman, Yen-Wei Chen","doi":"10.1109/NTMS.2018.8328727","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NTMS.2018.8328727","url":null,"abstract":"Chaff-points generation is one of the most important steps in the fuzzy vault encryption process. This phase is time and computational resource consuming. Several methods were proposed in the literature to optimize this step for resource constrained environments. The challenge is to generate the desired number of chaff-points in a minimum and homoge-neous time and a minimum amount of computational re-sources. In this paper, we propose a new chaff-points gen-eration method based on genetic algorithm and non-fixed squares boundaries for resource constrained devices. The obtained results showed that our method gives the desired number of chaff-points in a better time than other methods.","PeriodicalId":140704,"journal":{"name":"2018 9th IFIP International Conference on New Technologies, Mobility and Security (NTMS)","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129179739","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mobility-based Tracking Using WiFi RSS in Indoor Wireless Sensor Networks","authors":"D. Alshamaa, F. Mourad, P. Honeine","doi":"10.1109/NTMS.2018.8328704","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NTMS.2018.8328704","url":null,"abstract":"Tracking of mobile sensors is an important research issue in wireless sensor networks. This paper presents a zoning-based tracking technique that works efficiently in indoor environments. The targeted area is composed of several zones, the objective being to determine the zone of the mobile sensor in a real-time tracking process. The proposed method creates a belief functions framework that combines evidence using the sensors mobility and observations. To do this, a mobility model is proposed by using the previous state of the sensor and its assumed maximum speed. Also, an observation model is constructed based on fingerprints collected as WiFi signals strengths received from surrounding Access Points. Real experiments demonstrate the effectiveness of this approach and its competence compared to state-of-the-art methods.","PeriodicalId":140704,"journal":{"name":"2018 9th IFIP International Conference on New Technologies, Mobility and Security (NTMS)","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132707755","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mayank Raikwar, Subhra Mazumdar, S. Ruj, Sourav Sengupta, A. Chattopadhyay, Kwok-Yan Lam
{"title":"A Blockchain Framework for Insurance Processes","authors":"Mayank Raikwar, Subhra Mazumdar, S. Ruj, Sourav Sengupta, A. Chattopadhyay, Kwok-Yan Lam","doi":"10.1109/NTMS.2018.8328731","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NTMS.2018.8328731","url":null,"abstract":"We design a distributed platform with blockchain as a system service for supporting transaction execution in insurance processes. The insurance industry is heavily dependent on multiple processes between transacting parties for initiating, maintaining and closing diverse kind of policies. Transaction processing time, payment settlement time and security protection of the process execution are major concerns. Blockchain technology, originally conceived as an immutable distributed ledger for detecting double spending of cryptocurrencies, is now increasingly used in different FinTech systems to address productivity and security requirements. The application of blockchain in FinTech processing requires a deep understanding of the underlying business processes. It supports automated interactions between the blockchain and existing transaction systems through the notion of smart contracts. In this paper, we focus on the design of an efficient approach for processing insurance related transactions based on a blockchain-enabled platform. An experimental prototype is developed on Hyperledger fabric, an open source permissioned blockchain design framework. We discuss the main design requirements, corresponding design propositions, and encode various insurance processes as smart contracts. Extensive experiments were conducted to analyze performance of our framework and security of the proposed design.","PeriodicalId":140704,"journal":{"name":"2018 9th IFIP International Conference on New Technologies, Mobility and Security (NTMS)","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131567627","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
E. Bertelsen, Gabriel Berthling-Hansen, T. H. Bloebaum, Christian Duvholt, Einar Hov, F. T. Johnsen, Eivind Morch, Andreas H. Weisethaunet
{"title":"Federated Publish/Subscribe Services","authors":"E. Bertelsen, Gabriel Berthling-Hansen, T. H. Bloebaum, Christian Duvholt, Einar Hov, F. T. Johnsen, Eivind Morch, Andreas H. Weisethaunet","doi":"10.1109/NTMS.2018.8328694","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NTMS.2018.8328694","url":null,"abstract":"In recent years, there has been an increased focus on event-driven communication, and with it a paradigm shift from traditional client/server thinking towards information centric networks, where named content is in focus. It can be argued that information centric networking is already possible with existing infrastructure, since in its simplest form it can be seen as an analogy to current publish/subscribe systems. There exists many protocols and frameworks which implement this message exchange pattern, and in more complex systems, such as military systems and larger scale Internet-of-Things deployments it is not uncommon for multiple such protocols to be in use. In this paper, we present our implementation of a multi-protocol publish/subscribe brokering solution, which makes several relevant and much used publish/subscribe industry standards interoperable through bridging.","PeriodicalId":140704,"journal":{"name":"2018 9th IFIP International Conference on New Technologies, Mobility and Security (NTMS)","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130279823","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
S. L. Castellanos-Lopez, F. A. Cruz-Pérez, G. Hernández-Valdez, J. R. Miranda-Tello
{"title":"Performance Analysis of Mobile Cellular Networks with MMPP Call Arrival Patterns","authors":"S. L. Castellanos-Lopez, F. A. Cruz-Pérez, G. Hernández-Valdez, J. R. Miranda-Tello","doi":"10.1109/NTMS.2018.8328711","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NTMS.2018.8328711","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, the performance of mobile multi-cellular networks with Markov modulated Poisson process (MMPP) call arrivals is mathematically analyzed and numerically evaluated. In particular, new call requests in each cell are considered to follow independent two-state MMPP (MMPP-2). Three different analysis approaches are evaluated in this paper: based on bi-dimensional, tri-dimensional, and four-dimensional birth and death processes. In the bi-dimensional (tri-dimensional) {four-dimensional} queuing analysis, handoff call requests arriving to the reference cell are approximated by a Poisson process (MMPP-7) {MMPP-43}. Contrary to previously published related works, the parameters of the different MMPP used to approximately modelling handoff calls are iteratively calculated as function of the different system characteristics. In the four-dimensional queuing analysis, we propose to model the incoming handoff call requests to each cell with similar characteristics to the resulting process of the aggregation of the new and handoff call requests processes in the neighboring cells. In particular, the state transition rates of the MMPP are considered to be proportional to the aggregated rate of the call requests processes in the neighboring cells. The accuracy of the numerical results obtained with the proposed analytical approach is compared against those obtained by both a teletraffic analysis considering that handoff call requests follow a Poisson process and a discrete-event computer simulator. The effect of users' mobility factor and burstiness of new call arrivals on system performance are evaluated.","PeriodicalId":140704,"journal":{"name":"2018 9th IFIP International Conference on New Technologies, Mobility and Security (NTMS)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130673474","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}