Author
Aktypi, A., Çakmakçı, Kübra Kalkan, Rasmussen, K. B.
Publication Date
2020-03-16
Publication Place
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The ACM Digital Library
Subject
DHT, Fault-tolerance, IOT, Privacy, Resource sharing, Scalability
Type
Document
Language
English
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
No
Library
Özyeğin University
Library Asset ID
978-145037107-0
Record ID
46982bcd-1b85-485a-bbee-1d518e5032ed
Library Location
Computer Science
Date
2020-03-16
Notes
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
Sample Text
The emergence of the internet of Things (IoT) has resulted in the possession of a continuously increasing number of highly heterogeneous connected devices by the same owner. To make full use of the potential of a personal IoT network, there must be secure and effective cooperation between them. While application platforms (e.g., Samsung SmartThings) and interoperable protocols (e.g., MQTT) exist already, the reliance on a central hub to coordinate communication introduces a single-point of failure, provokes bottleneck problems and raises privacy concerns. In this paper we propose SeCaS, a Secure Capability Sharing framework, built on top of a peer-to-peer (P2P) architecture. SeCaS addresses the problems of fault tolerance, scalability and security in resource discovery and sharing for IoT infrastructures using a structured P2P network, in order to take advantage of the self-organised and decentralised communication it provides. SeCaS brings three main contributions: (i) a capability representation that allows each device to specify what services they offer, and can be used as a common language to search for, and exchange, capabilities, resulting in flexible service discovery that can leverage the properties on a distributed hash table (DHT); (ii) a set of four protocols that provides identification of the different devices that exist in the network and authenticity of the messages that are exchanged among them; and (iii) a thorough security and complexity analysis of the proposed scheme that shows SeCaS to be both secure and scalable.
DOI
10.1145/3374664.3375739