F. Cifuentes, A. Hevia, F. Montoto, T. Barros, Victor Ramiro, Javier Bustos-Jiménez
{"title":"Poor Man's Hardware Security Module (pmHSM): A Threshold Cryptographic Backend for DNSSEC","authors":"F. Cifuentes, A. Hevia, F. Montoto, T. Barros, Victor Ramiro, Javier Bustos-Jiménez","doi":"10.1145/2998373.2998452","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2998373.2998452","url":null,"abstract":"The DNS Security Extensions (DNSSEC) add a new layer of security based on public-key infrastructure: each DNS record is digitally signed to verify the authenticity of the answer. However, the introduction of DNSSEC has an impact in the operational workflow of DNS systems: (i) signatures have an expiration date, hence the records must be periodically signed and (ii) key management tasks can be overwhelming. These are problems specially for DNS zones with several records (for instance a Top Level Domain). The adoption of Hardware Security Module (HSM) is an option to provide highly secured keys and signature management. Nevertheless HSM is expensive and hardware can fail. We present a novel system based on threshold cryptography, called Poor Man's Hardware Security Module (pmHSM), which provides the signature components of an HSM over inexpensive commodity hardware to support the operational signing workflow of DNSSEC. This approach significantly improves security and availability of the overall system since the secret key is left beyond the reach of malicious compromises, it is spread among several independent nodes of the system.","PeriodicalId":161093,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 9th Latin America Networking Conference","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132626062","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":"Compact, low cost and long read range RFID UHF Tag Antenna mounted on a metallic surface","authors":"J. B. Ferreira, Á. Salles, G. Bulla","doi":"10.1145/2998373.2998449","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2998373.2998449","url":null,"abstract":"This paper shows the design of a novel compact Planar Inverted F antenna (PIFA) for Ultra-High Frequency (UHF) band passive radio frequency identification (RFID) tag. The antenna is designed to operate at 915 MHz frequency. Electromagnetic simulation commercial software (Ansoft HFSS) based on finite element method (FEM) was used to simulate the antenna parameters. This antenna shows good performance and the maximum reading distance of RFID tag placed using low cost substrate polyethylene terephthalate (PET) on a 10 μm thickness aluminum surface layer, with around 9.8 m, and the overall size is 46.1 × 28.58 × 6 mm3. The proposed antenna provides a valuable reference for RFID tag antenna design mounted on metal surface, and it can be widely used in UHF RFID systems.","PeriodicalId":161093,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 9th Latin America Networking Conference","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129977586","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":"A Secure Collaborative Network Protocol","authors":"Hugo Lima, Roberto Araújo, R. Viegas, D. Rosário","doi":"10.1145/2998373.2998446","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2998373.2998446","url":null,"abstract":"Cloud storage services allow a simple collaborative environment in which users share their files. To perform this, users state which files they want to share and who is able to access them. Recently, Silva et al. introduced an idea that does not require users to explicitly state who is able to access their files. It allows users to share their files based on common interests. As a result, users do not need to know any information (e.g., email addresses) about each other before sharing files. Unfortunately, security is not a concern in the first scheme that implements this idea. In this paper, we proposed an improved protocol that takes security into account.","PeriodicalId":161093,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 9th Latin America Networking Conference","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114062878","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}
Hugo Santos, D. Rosário, E. Cerqueira, João Camargo, M. Schimuneck, J. Nobre, C. Both
{"title":"A Comparative Analysis of H.264 and H.265 with Different Bitrates for on Demand Video Streaming","authors":"Hugo Santos, D. Rosário, E. Cerqueira, João Camargo, M. Schimuneck, J. Nobre, C. Both","doi":"10.1145/2998373.2998451","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2998373.2998451","url":null,"abstract":"Users are changing their traditional communication paradigm based on voice calls or text messages to real-time or on-demand video services consumed on mobile devices. In this sense, the transmission of video content considering an adequate Quality of Experience (QoE) in mobile wireless networking infrastructures is a critical issue in both academic and industrial communities. In this context, both video caching and adaptation schemes improve the QoE of delivered video. However, it is important to evaluate the performance of downloading the video videos with different codec configuration and cached closer to the user to measure the gain from the user perspective. In this paper, we evaluate the performance of downloading the video coded into H264/AVC and H.265 with different bit rate in a scenario with and without network congestion. We collected QoE metrics and energy to analyze the gains for each video configuration. These results are important for understanding the use of cache and transcoding schemes in multimedia networking scenarios.","PeriodicalId":161093,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 9th Latin America Networking Conference","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116759418","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}
Fabio López-Pires, B. Barán, Augusto Amarilla, Leonardo Benítez, Rodrigo Ferreira, Saúl Zalimben
{"title":"An Experimental Comparison of Algorithms for Virtual Machine Placement Considering Many Objectives","authors":"Fabio López-Pires, B. Barán, Augusto Amarilla, Leonardo Benítez, Rodrigo Ferreira, Saúl Zalimben","doi":"10.1145/2998373.2998374","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2998373.2998374","url":null,"abstract":"Cloud computing datacenters provide thousands to millions of virtual machines (VMs) on-demand in highly dynamic environments, requiring quick placement of requested VMs into available physical machines (PMs). Due to the randomness of customer requests, the Virtual Machine Placement (VMP) should be formulated as an online optimization problem. This work presents a formulation of a VMP problem considering the optimization of the following objective functions: (1) power consumption, (2) economical revenue, (3) quality of service and (4) resource utilization. To analyze alternatives to solve the formulated problem, an experimental comparison of five different online deterministic heuristics against an offline memetic algorithm with migration of VMs was performed, considering several experimental workloads. Simulations indicate that First-Fit Decreasing algorithm (A4) outperforms other evaluated heuristics on average. Experimental results prove that an offline memetic algorithm improves the quality of the solutions with migrations of VMs at the expense of placement reconfigurations.","PeriodicalId":161093,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 9th Latin America Networking Conference","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132893845","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}
L. Andrade, Milene Borba, Airton Ishimori, Fernando N. N. Farias, E. Cerqueira, A. Abelém
{"title":"On the Benchmarking Mainstream Open Software-Defined Networking Controllers","authors":"L. Andrade, Milene Borba, Airton Ishimori, Fernando N. N. Farias, E. Cerqueira, A. Abelém","doi":"10.1145/2998373.2998447","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2998373.2998447","url":null,"abstract":"Software-Defined Networking (SDN) has been one of the most successfull networking model over the past few years. The model decouples the network control and forwarding functions enabling the underlying infrastructure complexity to be programmed by applications. Although control plane is the cern for all the benefits, it is also the most crucial drawback of the SDN model to keep up working. Therefore, this paper presents a performance analysis on mainstream open-source SDN controllers. The results show that a well-perfomed control plane not only depends on controller throughput and response time, but also relies on topology discovery time. Our results show that Beacon controller has the highest performance on controller troughput because it uses multicore feature better than others. However, there is a few difference on topology building delay when compared to ONOS, Floodlight and OpenDaylight, which are also Java-based controllers. The worst one is Ryu for building network topology.","PeriodicalId":161093,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 9th Latin America Networking Conference","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125198852","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}
Gonzalo Arcos, Rodrigo Ferreri, Matías Richart, P. Ezzatti, E. Grampín
{"title":"Accelerating an IEEE 802.11 a/g/p Transceiver in GNU Radio","authors":"Gonzalo Arcos, Rodrigo Ferreri, Matías Richart, P. Ezzatti, E. Grampín","doi":"10.1145/2998373.2998443","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2998373.2998443","url":null,"abstract":"Software Defined Radio (SDR) is an approach where signal processing components of a radio transceiver are moved from the dedicated hardware to a combination of software and general purpose processors. This change offers many advantages, mainly for experimentation and prototyping as it allows to modify low-level functions without any change in hardware, but may also permit to contribute to solve future Internet challenges such as the ever necessary equipment upgrades caused by the rapidly growing demands of users. Recently, an implementation of a SDR IEEE 802.11 transceiver has been presented. Although this tool shows a clever realization, it presents some performance issues, bounding the obtained data rates. In this work we propose a set of software improvements to accelerate the implementation with the aim of improving achieved the data transfer rates. The experimental evaluation conducted reveals, depending on the Modulation and Coding Scheme (MCS) used, that our proposal obtains improvement factors between 2× and 10×.","PeriodicalId":161093,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 9th Latin America Networking Conference","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125583697","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}
Claudina Rattaro, P. Bermolen, Federico Larroca, P. Belzarena
{"title":"A Stochastic Geometry Analysis of Multichannel Cognitive Radio Networks","authors":"Claudina Rattaro, P. Bermolen, Federico Larroca, P. Belzarena","doi":"10.1145/2998373.2998450","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2998373.2998450","url":null,"abstract":"With the explosive development of wireless technologies, the demand of electromagnetic spectrum has been growing dramatically. Therefore, looking for more available spectrum, regulators have already begun to study secondary assignments in licensed bands. In this paper we present a probabilistic model based on a stochastic geometry approach to analyze cognitive radio networks. We focus on those scenarios where more than one band is available, a natural situation in this kind of networks. Quiet surprisingly, and to the best of our knowledge, such scenario has not been deeply explored yet in the literature. In particular we focus our study in the two main performance metrics: medium access probability and coverage probability. We evaluate our proposal through simulations and we present the analytical results of a particular case.","PeriodicalId":161093,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 9th Latin America Networking Conference","volume":"74 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126825040","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}
Paulo Sena, Airton Ishimori, Igor Carvalho, A. Abelém
{"title":"Cache-Aware Interest Routing: Impact Analysis on Cache Decision Strategies in Content-Centric Networking","authors":"Paulo Sena, Airton Ishimori, Igor Carvalho, A. Abelém","doi":"10.1145/2998373.2998445","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2998373.2998445","url":null,"abstract":"Information-Centric Networking (ICN) is one of the most promising model for dealing with the cern of the current Internet scenario, that is content. In this model, either routers or user devices in the network are capable of storing content in cache, where a client device pull a content by expressing an interest of the desired content name. One of the most sucessfull implementation of ICN is Content-Centric Networking (CCN) proposed by PARC. In CCN, the forwarding strategy pushes interest packets torwards a content server through a route determined by the Shortest-Path Route (SPR) strategy. However, SPR cannot fully exploit the network caching benefits, because the caching process only happens within the path without considering cache saturation level. Therefore, we propose Least Cache Routing (LCR) cache-aware strategy. Besides being based on SPR, LCR is constantly looking for the least saturated paths. The results shows that, a slight improvement on forwarding strategy is capable of improving LCE and LCD cache decision policies. Our results shows 150% and 53% performance gain on cache hit probability when LCR is jointly running with, respectively, LCE and LCD on Torus network.","PeriodicalId":161093,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 9th Latin America Networking Conference","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131589682","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":"Upgrading LTE-Sim with a Simulation Model for Relay Type 1 Networks with QoS Support","authors":"Einar C. Santos, P. R. Guardieiro","doi":"10.1145/2998373.2998444","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2998373.2998444","url":null,"abstract":"The growing traffic demand in broadband wireless access networks requires increasingly efficient resource allocation mechanisms and Quality of Service (QoS) guarantee, especially in mobility and low quality signal scenarios, with devices moving at high speed or positioned at the cell edge, for example. To overcome such limitations and optimize overall network performance, the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) specification of Long Term Evolution Advanced (LTE-A) networks with Relay Nodes Type 1 aims to improve channel quality at the cells edge in addition to expanding the coverage area, providing better quality and access to a greater number of devices. This paper presents a simulation model for LTE-A with Relay Nodes (RNs) developed in order to evaluate performance of such network. Presented model operates within the LTE-Sim simulator, a free open-source software widely known and validated in academic community. Additionally, we present a comparative evaluation carried out among different scheduling mechanisms available in literature over the developed platform.","PeriodicalId":161093,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 9th Latin America Networking Conference","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125734947","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}