{"title":"Mediated aggregate signature schemes in wireless sensor networks","authors":"Jihye Kim, Wonwoo Yang, Seunghwan Lee, W. Hwang","doi":"10.1109/SECONW.2015.7328139","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SECONW.2015.7328139","url":null,"abstract":"We propose new signature schemes we call mAggSig to achieve sensor authentication and data integrity in Wireless Sensor Networks. mAggSig blends both properties of mediate signatures and aggregate signatures. The proposed schemes are secure under the standard RSA assumption in the random oracle model. We analyze our proposed schemes and estimate the overhead by implementation.","PeriodicalId":429981,"journal":{"name":"2015 12th Annual IEEE International Conference on Sensing, Communication, and Networking - Workshops (SECON Workshops)","volume":"74 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130259464","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 sun energy harvester model for the network simulator 3 (ns-3)","authors":"Giovanni Benigno, O. Briante, G. Ruggeri","doi":"10.1109/SECONW.2015.7328143","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SECONW.2015.7328143","url":null,"abstract":"Machine to machine communications (M2M) are retained as one of the most important enabling technologies for the fulfilment of the Smart City paradigm. Unfortunately, M2M communications are still far to be a fully viable technology. One of the most important research topics concerning M2M is how to extend, as long as possible, the lifetime of the devices involved in the communication process by: (i) reducing the energy consumption and, (ii) using an harvesting system as an optional capability to recharge the devices. However, one important issue hindering the research advancement of this topic is the lack of an accurate simulation environment. Although the network simulator-3 (ns-3) offers many features to resolve that issue, the natively embedded models of energy harvesting systems are very simple and fail to take into account many aspects of the harvesting process. In this paper, we focus on solar energy harvesting systems and we propose an extension to ns-3 to accurately model them. Through simulation results, we show how our model allows to realistically simulate the behaviour of the devices powered by solar energy harvesters with different time scales ranging from a few seconds to several days.","PeriodicalId":429981,"journal":{"name":"2015 12th Annual IEEE International Conference on Sensing, Communication, and Networking - Workshops (SECON Workshops)","volume":"533 ","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120878377","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":"Coopetition in M2M ecosystem - the case of smart cities","authors":"A. Ghanbari, Oscar Álvarez, J. Markendahl","doi":"10.1109/SECONW.2015.7328140","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SECONW.2015.7328140","url":null,"abstract":"During recent years, there has been an increasing interest in the potential opportunities that can be attained with promoting Smart Sustainable Cities (SSC); a concept that can be reached based on Information and Communication Technology (ICT). The SSC concept is then considered achievable by horizontal integration of participating industries in its ecosystem in order to empower sustainability. This approach requires cooperation and sharing resources among co-existing multiple industrial verticals as well as collaboration among competitors (Coopetition). As a result, Machine to Machine (M2M) communications, as the most relevant subcategory of ICT in this context, requires proper coopetition patterns in its ecosystem. In this paper we identify the major roles (activities) in the M2M ecosystem in the context of Smart Cities. Next we define the actors who are capable of performing these roles and present a diagram showing plausible business relations among them. Eventually we discuss the complexity of resources in this context and present different forms of sharing resources among participating actors that is based on coopetition.","PeriodicalId":429981,"journal":{"name":"2015 12th Annual IEEE International Conference on Sensing, Communication, and Networking - Workshops (SECON Workshops)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126036193","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}
C. Mahapatra, Zhengguo Sheng, Victor C. M. Leung, T. Stouraitis
{"title":"A reliable and energy efficient IoT data transmission scheme for smart cities based on redundant residue based error correction coding","authors":"C. Mahapatra, Zhengguo Sheng, Victor C. M. Leung, T. Stouraitis","doi":"10.1109/SECONW.2015.7328141","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SECONW.2015.7328141","url":null,"abstract":"Cities today face multifarious challenges, including environmental sustainability, and low carbon solutions. Given these trends, it is critical to understand how information and communication technology (ICT) can benefit the future of city-planning process. Internet of Things (IoT) is a futuristic communication concept integrating plethora of interconnected heterogeneous objects forming a large scale smart city system, that is, it can communicate and control other objects over a global network. Hence, devising a fault tolerant mechanism is very important because of construction and deployment characteristics of these smart low powered sensing devices. In this paper, we propose a fault detection and error correction scheme based on redundant residue arithmetic, which provides a low complexity, delay tolerant and energy-efficient data transmission solution. By comparing the proposed method with existing solution in perceived packet loss rate and expected delivery latency, we show advantages of the proposed solution in improving data transmission quality.","PeriodicalId":429981,"journal":{"name":"2015 12th Annual IEEE International Conference on Sensing, Communication, and Networking - Workshops (SECON Workshops)","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115151686","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. Gazis, A. Leonardi, Kostas Mathioudakis, K. Sasloglou, Panayotis Kikiras, R. Sudhaakar
{"title":"Components of fog computing in an industrial internet of things context","authors":"E. Gazis, A. Leonardi, Kostas Mathioudakis, K. Sasloglou, Panayotis Kikiras, R. Sudhaakar","doi":"10.1109/SECONW.2015.7328144","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SECONW.2015.7328144","url":null,"abstract":"The \"Internet of Things\" (IoT) represents an em- bodiment of the continuous convergence between the physical facet of human activities and its reflection on the informa- tion world. In the context of “Industrial Internet”, where the operation of complex physical machinery is integrated with networked sensors and software applications, IoT is under- stood as a technological enabler of significant advances in the efficiency of industrial processes. In this paper, we elaborate on the main challenges brought on by the Industrial Internet and identify its key enabling technologies relevant to the Fog Computing paradigm. Further on, we propose the introduction of an Adaptive Operations Platform (AOP) to provide end-to- end manageability of the enabling Fog Computing infrastructure according to the operational requirements of industrial process. We present our prototype setup for AOP and elaborate on its performance evaluation in a typical industrial scenario.","PeriodicalId":429981,"journal":{"name":"2015 12th Annual IEEE International Conference on Sensing, Communication, and Networking - Workshops (SECON Workshops)","volume":"863 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133150121","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":"Help your mobile applications with fog computing","authors":"M. A. Hassan, Mengbai Xiao, Qi Wei, Songqing Chen","doi":"10.1109/SECONW.2015.7328146","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SECONW.2015.7328146","url":null,"abstract":"Cloud computing has paved a way for resource-constrained mobile devices to speed up their computing tasks and to expand their storage capacity. However, cloud computing is not necessary a panacea for all mobile applications. The high network latency to cloud data centers may not be ideal for delay-sensitive applications while storing everything on public clouds risks users' security and privacy. In this paper, we discuss two preliminary ideas, one for mobile application offloading and the other for mobile storage expansion, by leveraging the edge intelligence offered by fog computing to help mobile applications. Preliminary experiments conducted based on implemented prototypes show that fog computing can provide an effective and sometimes better alternative to help mobile applications.","PeriodicalId":429981,"journal":{"name":"2015 12th Annual IEEE International Conference on Sensing, Communication, and Networking - Workshops (SECON Workshops)","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130504841","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":"Monitoring urban traffic using semantic web services on smartphones - a case study","authors":"Oliver Kleine, Sebastian Ebers, Myriam Leggieri","doi":"10.1109/SECONW.2015.7328138","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SECONW.2015.7328138","url":null,"abstract":"The Internet of Things (IoT) aims to integrate arbitrary things with the Internet. Sadly, the majority of things lacks of the ability to communicate which makes a direct integration with a communication network, i.e., the Internet, impossible. We overcome this limitation by introducing refined versions of Semantic Entities, i.e., Web representations of arbitrary real-world things states using (possibly aggregated) sensor values. Sensors can be considered ubiquitous, e.g., due to the omnipresence of smartphones. Our architecture of a Semantic Web of Things bases on sensors providing their measurements in the form of RDF1. We account for the common fact of resource constraints on sensor platforms by introducing a scalable caching mechanism for RDF data within a network of proxies (SSPs). Consequently, the individual Semantic Entities find and aggregate relevant (sensor) data via SPARQL. Besides scalability, the proxies also solve the issue of the sensor platforms diversity in terms of communication interfaces.","PeriodicalId":429981,"journal":{"name":"2015 12th Annual IEEE International Conference on Sensing, Communication, and Networking - Workshops (SECON Workshops)","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130174790","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":"Benchmarking renderscript: potential for energy efficient multi-core mobile devices","authors":"Q. Ju, Shang-Tse Chen, Ying Zhang","doi":"10.1109/SECONW.2015.7328142","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SECONW.2015.7328142","url":null,"abstract":"Multi-core System On Chips (SoCs) are playing a predominating role in smart phones and tablets. Unlike traditional multi-core desktops, mobile devices are restricted by the limited energy the batteries can buffer. It remains unclear whether it is energy efficient to adopt heterogeneous computing in multi-core mobile devices. In this paper, we evaluate mobile heterogeneous computing by benchmarking RenderScript, a high performance computing framework in Android system, using 6 selected benchmarks in the area of linear algebra, machine learning and image processing. For each benchmark, both the original version and the RenderScript heterogeneous version are implemented for the performance comparison. We make a thorough study of the performance in terms of computation speedup and power consumption on two smart phone platforms. Our results demonstrate that, compared with original implementation, the increase of computation speed ranges from 2 to 18 by using RenderScript while the power consumption overhead is capped by 75%. By adopting heterogeneous computing, the total energy required for executing the applications can be significantly reduced. Based on the benchmarking results, the potential for improving energy efficiency of multi-core mobile devices is discussed.","PeriodicalId":429981,"journal":{"name":"2015 12th Annual IEEE International Conference on Sensing, Communication, and Networking - Workshops (SECON Workshops)","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117147914","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":"The IoT hub: a fog node for seamless management of heterogeneous connected smart objects","authors":"S. Cirani, G. Ferrari, Nicola Iotti, Marco Picone","doi":"10.1109/SECONW.2015.7328145","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SECONW.2015.7328145","url":null,"abstract":"The Internet of Things (IoT) will interconnect billions of devices, denoted as “smart objects,” deployed pervasively, which will be extremely heterogeneous, in terms of hardware (i.e., computational power and available memory), software (i.e., operating systems, applications), and communication interfaces. Traditional Internet actors, such as personal computers, mobile devices, and cloud servers, will also communicate with smart objects, thus creating even more complexity. The IoT has so far grown as several vertical silos, with the purpose of demonstrating the concept of the IoT, rather than focusing on the actual construction of a highly interoperable infrastructure for the development of applications. The Internet Protocol (IP) stack (in particular, HTTP and CoAP) has been foreseen as the driver for integration and interoperability among devices and basis for the evolution of the Web of Things. However, in order to manage the physical diversity of devices and to create an IP-based infrastructure, the presence of network elements able to bridge different networks to enable direct end-to-end communication is required. Moreover, effective interaction with applications might require the presence of intermediaries, such as proxies, which may optionally implement protocol and data format translation functionalities. Given the above considerations, we propose a Fog node, denoted as “IoT Hub,” placed at the edge of multiple networks, which enhances the networks capabilities by implementing the following functions: border router; cross-proxy; cache; and resource directory. An implementation of the IoT Hub is presented together with a performance evaluation in a real-world IoT testbed.","PeriodicalId":429981,"journal":{"name":"2015 12th Annual IEEE International Conference on Sensing, Communication, and Networking - Workshops (SECON Workshops)","volume":"119 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124157315","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}