ISI: Integrate Sensor Networks to Internet With ICN

Journal of Reliable Intelligent Environments, 2015

Recent developments in sensors, devices, identification technologies, and wireless networking have fueled the vision of the Internet of Things (IoT). Small devices with processing, sensing, and connectivity capabilities can be connected to the Internet and produce vast amounts of meaningful information. At the same time identification technologies, such as RFID, enable the association of information with "things". The information produced by things, or associated with things, will be both huge and sensitive. For this reason new architectures for disseminating and processing this information in a reliable and efficient way should be explored. In this paper, we present an architecture for the IoT, based on the Information-Centric Networking (ICN) paradigm. ICN architectures are built around information and information identifiers and they provide mechanisms for advertising, finding, and retrieving information. We leverage a particular ICN architecture, the Publish-Subscribe Internetworking architecture, to design an IoT architecture and we present three security solutions that enable access control, secure delegation of information storage and trust based on information identifiers.

IEEE Communications Magazine, 2016

The rapid growth in Internet of Things (IoT) deployment has posed unprecedented challenges to the underlying network design. We envision that tomorrow's global-scale IoT systems will focus on service-oriented data sharing and processing rather than point-to-point data collection. Requirements such as global reachability, mobility, communication diversity, and security will also develop naturally along with the change in the communication patterns. However, existing (IP-based) networks focus only on locations and point-to-point channels. The mismatch between the dynamic requirements and the functionalities provided by the network renders IoT communication inefficient and inconvenient. Information-centric networking (ICN) shifts the focus from location to the (identity of) information. This paradigm can naturally be adapted to IoT communication since service can also be identified as a type of information. To demonstrate the potential of ICN in IoT communication, this article adopts and modifies a particular example of ICN called MobilityFirst, and shows that the target architecture can satisfy the requirements posed by IoT communication. Similar adaptations can also be used by other ICN architectures such as NDN and XIA.

Computer Communications, 2019

Internet of Things (IoT) has gained extensive attention from industry and academia alike in past decade. The connectivity of each and every piece of technology in the environment with Internet, has opened many avenues of research and development. Applications, algorithms, trust models, devices, all have evolved to accommodate the demands of user needs in the most optimal way possible. However, one thing still remains constant: host-centric communication. It is the most predominant way of communication in Internet today. With evolution of everything else, host based communication has been stretched to limits, and exploration of new models have been underway for sometime. Information Centric Networking (ICN) is a major contender for the future Internet architecture, where content is the basic element regardless of its location (host). It intends to offer in-network caching, inherent mobility, multicast support, and content based security as part of design and not add-on functionality. In recent years, numerous efforts have been made to integrate IoT with ICN as the communication model. In this paper, we provide a detailed and systematic review of IoT-ICN research. We investigate ICN as communication enabler for IoT domain specific use cases, and the use of ICN features for the benefit of IoT networks. These include IoT device & content naming, discovery, and caching. We also survey synchronization, interoperability, publish/subscribe communication, quality of service, security, and mobility of IoT devices with ICN perspectives. The paper also presents challenges and possible research directions for the benefit of community.

The Information-Centric Networking (ICN) paradigm for the future Internet is fundamentally different from the classic host-centric Internet Protocol (IP). By leveraging unique, persistent and location-independent content names, ICN provides native multicast support, content-based security, innetwork caching, and easy data access, which can be especially useful in the Internet of Things (IoT).

International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks

In recent years, Internet of Things has changed the way people work and live, thereby opening new opportunities. This article describes a framework architecture for interconnecting several wireless sensor networks to the Internet to achieve the vision of Internet of Things. Connecting things together is done through gateways that act as single points of failure to bridge the connection between wireless sensor network and the traditional wired Internet. To cope with the unreliable nature of wireless links and scale to a large number of sensors and wireless sensor networks, several gateways should be installed. Given a number of previously deployed gateways, the contribution of this article is twofold. First, it focuses on choosing the most suitable ones for connecting wireless sensor networks to the Internet in a efficient and cost-effective manner, using integer linear programming to develop the mathematical model. Second, a network topology that puts the integration of wireless sensor networks to the Internet in place is built. A three-layer architecture is used in such a way that the intermediate layer adapts dynamically to network changes and evolution. Gateway selection procedure at this layer was implemented using CPLEX linear solver, and the gateway was integrated on Raspberry Pi cheaper hardware which serves as the routing protocol for low-power and lossy network root for the wireless sensor network configuration. Experiments and real deployments have been conducted to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed scheme.

Journal of Cyber Security and Mobility

IP has been designed for Internet decades ago to connect computers and share expensive resources such as tape drives and printers. Nowadays, Internet of Things and other emerging applications use Internet to fetch and exchange content such as monitoring data and movies. This content-centric use of Internet highlights the limitations of the IP architecture. IETF Working Groups spend significant efforts to adapt the traditional IP stack to IoT systems, but the shortcomings of IP remain difficult to hide. In this context, the recently emerged Named Data Networking (NDN) architecture promises a better support of IoT systems and future Internet applications. This paper describes a realistic IoT architecture based on NDN. In practice, an integration of NDN in IoT devices over low-power wireless technologies is designed, deployed and evaluated considering a Smart Farming application scenario. This work aims to show that NDN is more suitable than IP for IoT systems, by giving another look a...

2019

The Internet of Things (IoT) promises to connect billions of objects to the Internet. After deploying many stand-alone IoT systems in different domains, the current trend is to develop a common, "thin waist" of protocols to enable a horizontally unified IoT architecture. The objective of such an architecture is to make resource objects securely accessible to applications across organizations and domains. Towards this goal, quite a few proposals have been made to build an application-layer based unified IoT platform on top of today’s host-centric Internet. However, there is a fundamental mismatch between the host-centric nature of today’s Internet and the mostly information-centric nature of the IoT domain. To address this mismatch, the common set of protocols and network services offered by an information-centric networking (ICN) architecture can be leveraged to realize an ICN-based IoT (or ICNIoT) architecture that can take advantage of the salient features of ICN such as...

2016 IEEE First International Conference on Internet-of-Things Design and Implementation (IoTDI), 2016

The Internet of Things (IoT) is a vision for interconnecting all of the world's "things"-from vehicles to diet scales, smart homes and electrical grids-through a common set of networking technologies. Realizing this vision using a host-to-host communication paradigm, such as that of the Internet Protocol (IP), is challenging in the context of highly heterogeneous, constrained devices that connect intermittently to one or more networks, often using multiple interfaces; communicate within various security regimes; and require both local and global communication capability. Using IP and similar protocols as the narrow waist of interoperability for IoT requires managing data exchange and security in terms that are largely orthogonal to application semantics, while simultaneously needing to minimize resource usage. This paper explores how Named Data Networking (NDN), a proposed future Internet architecture, addresses the root causes of these challenges and can help achieve the IoT vision in a more secure, straightforward, and innovationfriendly manner. NDN's data-centric communication model aligns network and application semantics, enabling developers to work with "things" and their data directly, and for IoT networks to be deployed and configured easily. To substantiate the high-level discussion, we give examples of ongoing design and implementation work in IoT over NDN and compare the architecture to wellknown existing protocols and frameworks. Finally, we discuss short-and long-term scenarios for employing NDN to enable the Internet of Things.

10th International Conference on Heterogeneous Networking for Quality, Reliability, Security and Robustness, 2014

To develop unified IoT platforms where objects can be made accessible to applications across organizations and domains, popular solutions are based on client-server overlays on today's Internet. These solutions, however, inherit the inefficiencies of the current Internet-especially in terms of mobility, scalability, and communication reliability. To address this problem, we propose to build the unified IoT platform leveraging the salient feats of Information-Centric Network (ICN) architectures, which we call ICN-IoT. Specifically, we explore two ICN architectures-MobilityFirst and NDN-to support IoT, and refer to them as MF-IoT and NDN-IoT, respectively. Through detailed simulations, we find that though these two architectures fare comparably, MF-IoT incurs lower control overheads.

2017 IFIP Networking Conference (IFIP Networking) and Workshops, 2017

While research on Information-Centric Networking (ICN) flourishes, its adoption seems to be an elusive goal. In this paper we propose Edge-ICN: a novel approach for deploying ICN in a single large network, such as the network of an Internet Service Provider. Although Edge-ICN requires nothing beyond an SDN-based network supporting the OpenFlow protocol, with ICN-aware nodes only at the edges of the network, it still offers the same benefits as a clean-slate ICN architecture but without the deployment hassles. Moreover, by proxying legacy traffic and transparently forwarding it through the Edge-ICN nodes, all existing applications can operate smoothly, while offering significant advantages to applications such as native support for scalable anycast, multicast, and multi-source forwarding. In this context, we show how the proposed functionality at the edge of the network can specifically benefit CoAP-based IoT applications. Our measurements show that Edge-ICN induces on average the same control plane overhead for name resolution as a centralized approach, while also enabling IoT applications to build on anycast, multicast, and multi-source forwarding primitives.