EAI Endorsed Transactions on Future Internet

Issue 13, 2018

Editor(s)-in-Chief: Riadh Dhaou and Lucia Knapcikova

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A Survey on Secure and Resilient Session Schemes: Technical Comparison and Assessment
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ue 18(13): e1

Authors:
Daouda Ahmat, Damien Magoni

Abstract:
Cyber threats become more and more pervasive on the Internet and on distributed/decentralized systems. In order to secure communication over these infrastructures and respond to mobility constraint, a new class of Virtual Private Networks (VPN), which support both security and mobility, has emerge…Cyber threats become more and more pervasive on the Internet and on distributed/decentralized systems.
In order to secure communication over these infrastructures and respond to mobility constraint, a new class of Virtual Private Networks (VPN), which support both security and mobility, has emerged in the course of last years. Mobile Virtual Private Networks, called mobile VPN, provide not only secure tunnels but also session continuity mechanism despite location change or connection disruptions. This mechanism enables secure sessions to survive in dynamic/mobile environments without requiring a renegotiation of security keys during the session resumption phase. In this paper, on the one hand, we survey the recent literature on the mobile VPN systems followed by a detailed analysis and a technical comparison in tabulated form of existing technologies. On the other hand, we carry out experiments on open source mobile VPN infrastructures. We subsequently outline and discuss major features and performances of various assessed mobile VPN infrastructures.
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Approaching decentralized non-repudiation
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ue 18(13): e2

Authors:
H. Kamdem Fezeu, T. Djotio, R. Oulad Haj Thami

Abstract:
Securing data exchanges is a major preoccupation, and several techniques have been developed to reach that aim. The predominant model for such exchange is that which relies on trusted third-parties. Meanwhile, emerging technologies such as IoT are set to broadcast growing amounts of sensitive data,…Securing data exchanges is a major preoccupation, and several techniques have been developed to reach that aim. The predominant model for such exchange is that which relies on trusted third-parties. Meanwhile, emerging technologies such as IoT are set to broadcast growing amounts of sensitive data, thereby making centralized architectures problematic for privacy and performance reasons and making decentralized networks ever more relevant. However, these third-parties play an important role in securing brokered communications and are essential in providing Authentication and Non-Repudiation according to current models, and cannot be used in peer-to-peer networks. Hence there is need for a simple model applicable in fully decentralized networks to provide Non-Repudiation. This document proposes such a model, presents an implementation and discusses its application, particularly in implementing irrefutable trustless transaction mechanisms – similar to blockchain – with limited resources.
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Reassessing Android Malware Analysis: From Apps to IoT System Modelling
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ue 18(10): e3

Authors:
Abraham Rodriguez-Mota, Ponciano Jorge Escamilla-Ambrosio, Eleazar Aguirre-Anaya, Jassim Happa

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Applications based on the Internet of Things (IoT) are increasingly vulnerable to disruption from cyber attacks. Developers and researchers attempt to prevent the growth of such disruption models, mitigate and limit their impact. This requires the understanding and characterization of things and th…Applications based on the Internet of Things (IoT) are increasingly vulnerable to disruption from cyber attacks. Developers and researchers attempt to prevent the growth of such disruption models, mitigate and limit their impact. This requires the understanding and characterization of things and the technologies that
empower the IoT. Futhermore, tools to evaluate, analyze and detect security threats in IoT devices are strongly required. This paper presents a web tool, named GARMDROID, aimed to help IoT software developers and integrators to evaluate IoT security threats based on the visualization of Android application hardware requests. This procedure is based on the static analysis of permissions requested by Android applications. A mapping from the malware analysis data obtained to a SysML block definition diagram is also briefly described. This mapping shows how data can be used to model IoT systems under different proposals such as Model Integrated Mechatronics (MIM) and UML4IoT.
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A Socio-physical and Mobility-Aware Coalition Formation Mechanism in Public Safety Networks
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ue 18(13): e4

Authors:
E.E. Tsiropoulou, K. Koukas, S. Papavassiliou

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In this paper, the problem of socio-physical and mobility-aware coalition formation among the trapped users and the first responders in public safety networks is addressed towards guaranteeing users’ connectivity, stability, and energy-efficient communication. Each user is associated with some soci…In this paper, the problem of socio-physical and mobility-aware coalition formation among the trapped users and the first responders in public safety networks is addressed towards guaranteeing users’ connectivity, stability, and energy-efficient communication. Each user is associated with some social, physical and mobility-related characteristics and attributes in a public safety network. Users’ social attributes mainly refer to the communication interests with the neighbors based on their profiles and objectives, while their physical characteristics are the energy availability, the energy consumption rate and the average received signal strength from the neighbors for each user. The profile of each user is completed by a mobility pattern that characterizes the moving behavior of the specific user. Those types of characteristics are considered to constitute a weighted profile for each user, based on which the coalition-head selection and the coalition formation processes are performed in a distributed manner with reduced information exchange among the users. As the time evolves, given users’ mobility, the conditions in the public safety network change dynamically, thus a coalitions’ remedy methodology is introduced. Finally, the performance of the proposed approach is evaluated via modeling and simulation and its superiority compared to other existing approaches in the literature is illustrated.
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Improving ZooKeeper Atomic Broadcast Performance When a Server Quorum Never Crashes
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ue 18(13): e5

Authors:
Ibrahim EL-Sanosi, Paul Ezhilchelvan

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Operating at the core of the highly-available ZooKeeper system is the ZooKeeper atomic broadcast (Zab) for imposing a total order on service requests that seek to modify the replicated system state. Zab is designed with the weakest assumptions possible under crash-recovery fault model; e.g., any nu…Operating at the core of the highly-available ZooKeeper system is the ZooKeeper atomic broadcast (Zab) for imposing a total order on service requests that seek to modify the replicated system state. Zab is designed with the weakest assumptions possible under crash-recovery fault model; e.g., any number - even all - of servers can crash simultaneously and the system will continue or resume its service provisioning when a server quorum remains or resumes to be operative. Our aim is to explore ways of improving Zab performance without modifying its easy-to-implement structure. To this end, we ÿrst assume that server crashes are independent and a server quorum remains operative at all time. Under these restrictive, yet practical, assumptions, we propose three variations of Zab and do performance comparison. ⁄e ÿrst variation o‡ers excellent performance but can be only used for 3-server systems; the other two do not have this limitation. One of them reduces the leader overhead further by conditioning the sending of acknowledgements on the outcomes of coin tosses. Owing to its superb performance, it is re-designed to operate under the least-restricted Zab fault assumptions. Further performance comparisons conÿrm the potential of coin-tossing in o‡ering performances better than Zab, particularly at high workloads.
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Scope

This journal will provide a venue for publishing the latest research and developments in the area of Future Internet. Only original and unpublished contributions that are not under simultaneous review at another conference or journal will be considered.

The journal in particular welcomes contri…

The journal in particular welcomes contributions that deal with the various aspects of computing and communications that help achieve the goals of the Future Internet. Papers that describe innovative applications and test-beds that will help in achieving the vision of the Future Internet, and tools that enable development of novel networking applications are also welcome.

Special Issues

Special Issue Editors: Erdil D. Cenk (Sacred Heart University)

Anupam Joshi (University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, USA)
Giovanni Stea (University of Pisa)
Palanivel Kodeswaran (IBM India Research Lab, Bangalore, India)
Salil Kanhere (University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia)
Surendar Chandra (Datrium, Sunnyvale, US…

Anupam Joshi (University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, USA)
Giovanni Stea (University of Pisa)
Palanivel Kodeswaran (IBM India Research Lab, Bangalore, India)
Salil Kanhere (University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia)
Surendar Chandra (Datrium, Sunnyvale, USA)
Syed Ahmed Hassan (Kyungpook National University, South Korea)
Wenye Wang (North Carolina State University, Raleigh, USA)
Yunhao Liu (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China)

Journal Blurb

Temporarily closed open source journal on Future Internet.

Publisher: EAI
ISSN: 2032-9377
Volume: 4

Published: 2018-01-12

A Survey on Secure and Resilient Session Schemes: Technical Comparison and Assessment

Approaching decentralized non-repudiation

Reassessing Android Malware Analysis: From Apps to IoT System Modelling

A Socio-physical and Mobility-Aware Coalition Formation Mechanism in Public Safety Networks

Improving ZooKeeper Atomic Broadcast Performance When a Server Quorum Never Crashes

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