(PDF) Internet of Things: Security and Organization (2015) | José Miguel Camacho Tavares | 1 Citations

Internet of Things: Security and Organization

01 Sep 2015

TL;DR

This work was developed to identify potential security and privacy vulnerabilities associated with the current and future Internet of Things and the implementation of an environment that will help organize and manage the heterogeneous IoT devices that will be part of a smart home.

Abstract

The Internet today is mainly human-centric and many of the connected devices are well known technology (e.g. desktops, laptops, mobile phones). The Internet of Things (IoT) changes this situation by introducing a wide variety of new objects to the traditional Internet, so as to improve the daily lives of people and business, by enhancing new services and triggering innovations into these environments. However, the security solutions built around previous connected technologies is not completely sufficient for these new connected objects. This is due to their miniaturization they have many constraints in terms of computational power, memory, storage, and battery lifetime, which introduces new challenges in terms of implementing security solutions. Apart from the establishment of secure communications, the data collected from these devices also raises some privacy threats; how these data are processed, stored and shared, is still not clear. As more objects become Internet-enabled the threat will only increase if no measures are put in place during the early stages of the Internet of Things. This work was developed to identify potential security and privacy vulnerabilities associated with the current and future Internet of Things. This thesis starts by describing the concept of the Internet of Things followed by a description of the current state of security approaches for the IoT products. The technologies that will enable the IoT growth and the security challenges, requirements, threats, and countermeasures are thus summarized in this thesis. At the end an experimental assessment of the security implementation of a device present in the current market was performed and a more robust proposal for the security and privacy of the device was developed. The work was then followed by the implementation of an environment that will help organize and manage the heterogeneous IoT devices that will be part of a smart home. Finally some conclusions and directions for future work are presented.

Summary

Author: José Miguel Camacho Tavares
Licenciado em Ciências da Engenharia Electrotécnica e de Computadores
Thesis: Dissertação apresentada para obtenção do Grau de Mestre em Engenharia Electrotécnica e de Computadores, pela Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia.
Orientador: Luís Manuel Camarinha de Matos, Professor Doutor, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Júri:
Presidente: Prof. Doutor José Manuel Matos Ribeiro da Fonseca, FCT/UNL
Arguente: Prof. Doutora Patrícia Alexandra Pires Macedo, EST/IPS
Vogal: Prof. Doutor Luís Manuel Camarinha de Matos, FCT/UNL
Setembro, 2015

Copyright

The Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia and the Universidade Nova de Lisboa have the right, perpetual and without geographical limits, of filling and publishing this dissertation through printed examples reproduced in paper or in digital form, or any other known way or that might be invented, and of spreading it through scientific repositories and of admitting its copy and distribution with education or research objectives, without commercial intents, provided that credit is given to the author and publisher.

Citations

A comprehensive and systematic review of the load balancing mechanisms in the Internet of Things

Behrouz Pourghebleh, Vahideh Hayyolalam +1 more 01 Jun 2020
Cluster Computing
TL;DR: In this research, the load balancing methods are categorized into two main categories including centralized and distributed and their merits and demerits are specified and future authors will be able to develop more effective load balancing mechanisms.