IoT-SoS 2018

Internet of Things: Smart Objects and Services


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Technical Program

Opening Remarks (9:00—9:10)
Keynote (9:10—10:30)

Theory and Practise of Ultra-Reliable Low-Latency Wireless Networking

Dr. James Gross
KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
https://www.kth.se/profile/jamesgr

Abstract: Over the last five years new applications from the industrial domain have received more and more interest by the networking community. Often referred to as critical machine-to-machine applications, they arise for example from sensor-actuator communication in automation settings. As the involved QoS requirements (mainly latency and reliability) can be quite strict, these applications pose new challenges for the design of wireless networks. In this talk, design aspects as well as experimental results regarding a new wireless system for such application cases are presented. The discussed system EchoRing leverages cooperative cooperation, and maximizes the cooperation gain by fast exchange of channel state information. Several foundations of the system evolution are discussed, such as communication-theoretic aspects regarding cooperative communication in the finite blocklength regime, probabilistic model-checking of the protocol as well as practically relevant cooperative node selection algorithms.

Coffee Break (10:30—11:00)
Session I: Enabling Technologies for IoT (11:00—12:30)
Chair: Ana Aguiar

High-Order PSK Signaling (HOPS) Techniques for Low-Power Spread Spectrum Communications
Alan J Michaels (Virginia Tech & Hume Center for National Security and Technology, USA)

A Microservices Architecture for Reactive and Proactive Fault Tolerance in IoT Systems
Alexander Power and Gerald Kotonya (Lancaster University, United Kingdom)

A Routing Protocol for LoRA Mesh Networks
Daniel Lundell and Anders Hedberg (Sensefarm AB, Sweden); Christian Nyberg and Emma Fitzgerald (Lund University, Sweden);

Indoor Occupancy Estimation via Location-Aware HMM: An IoT Approach
Masahiro Yoshida (Keio University, Japan); Sofia Kleisarchaki and Levent Gürgen (University Grenoble Alpes, CEA, LETI, France); Hiroaki Nishi (eio University, Japan)

Lunch (12:30—14:00)
Session II: IoT Applications and Security (14:00—15:30)
Chair: Giacomo Tanganelli

A Resource Identity Management Strategy for Combined Fog-to-Cloud Systems
Alejandro Gómez-Cárdenas, Xavi Masip-Bruin, Eva Marín-Tordera, Sarang Kahvazadeh, Jordi García ( Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya (UPC) & Advanced Network Architectures Lab (CRAAX), Spain)

The road to privacy in IoT: beyond encryption and signatures, towards unobservable communication
Ralf C. Staudemeyer (Schmaldkalden University of Applied Sciences, Germany); CHenrich C. Pohls (University of Passau, Germany); Marcin Wojcik (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom)

A Modular Tool for Benchmarking IoT Publish-Subscribe Middleware
Luís Zilhao (University of Porto & Instituto de Telecomunicaçôes, Portugal); Ricardo Morla (INESC Porto and Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, Portugal); Ana C Aguiar (University of Porto & Instituto de Telecomunicaçôes, Portugal)

Smart IoT Data Collection
Nikos Fotiou, Vasilios A. Siris, Alexandros Mertzianis and George C. Polyzos (Mobile Multimedia Lab, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece)

Coffee Break (15:30—16:00)
Panel: IoT security - threats and solutions (16:00—17:00)
Chair: Edmundo Monteiro

Sotiris Ioannidis
Bio: Dr. Sotiris Ioannidis (male) received a BSc degree in Mathematics and an MSc degree in Computer Science from the University of Crete in 1994 and 1996 respectively. In 1998 he received an MSc degree in Computer Science from the University of Rochester and in 2005 he received his PhD from the University of Pennsylvania. Ioannidis held a Research Scholar position at the Stevens Institute of Technology until 2007, and since then he is Research Director at the Institute of Computer Science of the Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas. Since November 2017 he is a member of the European Union Agency for Network and Information Security (ENISA) Permanent Stakeholders Group (PSG). His research interests are in the area of systems, networks, and security. Ioannidis has authored more than 100 publications in international conferences and journals, as well as book chapters, including ACM CCS, ACM/IEEE ToN, USENIX ATC, NDSS, and has both chaired and served in numerous program committees in prestigious international conferences. Ioannidis is a Marie-Curie Fellow and has participated in numerous international and European projects. He has coordinated a number of European and National projects (e.g. PASS, EU-INCOOP, GANDALF, SHARCS) and is currently the project coordinator of the THREAT-ARREST, I-BiDaaS, and CERTCOOP European projects.

George C. Polyzos
Bio: George C. Polyzos is Professor of Computer Science at the Athens University of Economics and Business and Director of the Mobile Multimedia Laboratory. Before that he was Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of California, San Diego. He holds a PhD in CS and a MASc in EE from the University of Toronto and the Diploma in EE from the National Technical University, Athens. He serves on the editorial board of the IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, has chaired the Steering Committee of the ACM SIGCOMM conference on Information-Centric Networking and is on the Steering Committee of the IFIP Wireless and Mobile Networking Conference. He is currently participating in H2020 IoT projects SOFIE: “Secure Open Federation for Internet Everywhere” (designing open and secure business platforms through the federation of existing IoT platforms and Distributed Ledger Technologies), and INTER-IoT through open call project ACHILLES on “Access Control and autHenticatIon deLegation for interoperabLE IoT applicationS.”

Angelos K. Marnerides
Bio: Dr. Angelos K. Marnerides is Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Computer Networking in the School of Computing & Communications (SCC) at Lancaster University, UK. In the past, he was a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in the department of Computer Science at Liverpool John Moores University, UK. He also held postdoctoral appointments in the ECE department at Carnegie Mellon University, USA, in DCC at the University of Porto, Portugal and in SCC at Lancaster University, UK. He also held visiting researcher appointments in the SCC, Lancaster University, UK, and the EE department at University College London (UCL), UK. His research interests lie in the area of network resilience and security for a range of scenarios in the context of the backbone Internet traffic, malware/botnet detection, cloud computing, the smart grid and the IoT. His work has been funded by bodies in the UK (EPSRC, Innovate UK, GCHQ), the EU (FP6, FP7, H2020), the US (NSF), Portugal (FCT) and the industry (BT, Fujitsu). Angelos is currently a Principle Investigator (PI) for a two-year Innovate UK project related to IoT cybersecurity for the smart grid and a Co-Investigator (Co-I) in the newly funded EU H2020 EASY-RES project. He has organised/co-chaired several workshops and symposia for top-tier IEEE conferences such as IEEE ICC, IEEE INFOCOM and IEEE GLOBECOM. Angelos holds an MSc and PhD in Computer Science from Lancaster University, UK.

Closing Remarks (17:00—17:10)

Keynote

Dr. James Gross

Dr. James Gross

Electrical Engineering and Computr Science School, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm
https://www.kth.se

Biography: James Gross received his Ph.D. degree from TU Berlin in 2006. From 2008-2012, he was assistant professor at RWTH Aachen University and associated with the DFG-funded UMIC Research Centre. Since November 2012, he has been with the Electrical Engineering and Computr Science School, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, as an associate professor. He also serves as director for the KTH ACCESS Linneaus Centre and is a member of the board of KTH’s Innovative Centre for Embedded Systems. His research interests are broadly in the area of mobile systems and networks, with a focus on critical machine-to-machine communications, cellular networks, as well as performance evaluation methods. He has (co-)authored over 120 papers in international journals and conferences. His work has been awarded multiple times, including best paper awards at ACM MSWiM 2015, IEEE WoWMoM 2009, and European Wireless 2009. In 2007, he was the recipient of the ITG/KuVS dissertation award for his Ph.D. thesis. Apart from his academic work, he is co-founder of the spin-off R3 Communications GmbH, a Berlin-based start-up in the area of mission-critical industrial wireless networking.

Workshop co-chairs:

  • Marilia Curado (University of Coimbra, Portugal)
  • Giacomo Tanganelli (University of Pisa, Italy)

Steering Committee:

  • Claudio Cicconetti (IIT CNR, Italy)
  • Enzo Mingozzi (University of Pisa, Italy)
  • Jaudelice Cavalcante de Oliveira (Drexel University, PA, USA)
  • Xiaohua Jia (City University of Hong Kong)

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