MAster assignment
digital twins and securing IoT applications
TYPE : MASTER CS
Period: Start date: as soon as possible
Student: Unassigned
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Description:
Identifiable networking objects (sensors or actuators) that advertise their services to put together semantically rich applications are what define the Internet of Things (IoT). The Internet of Things (IoT) covers connectivity, applications, and processes in addition to analyzing specific items. To support business processes, heterogeneous equipment, and devices with a wide range of specifications and data integrate smoothly together.
Traditional security measures are no longer effective due to the low power nature of many IoT sensor nodes, and problems like communications taking place without sufficient encryption or authentication are being reported in the literature. The large-scale data collecting that is made possible by these devices is another frightening problem. An attacker may be able to deduce sensitive or private information from seemingly innocent sensor data, according to earlier studies. The innovative idea of Digital Twins (DTs) has been adopted by research and industry more frequently since 2017 in a variety of disciplines, including industrial production, the process industry, building management, the health care sector, and smart cities.
This project aims to design and implement a solution a DT-based scheme to provide a secured way for ensuring the authentication between the DTs and their adjacent physical devices. The authentication scheme could be based on symmetric or asymmetric cryptographic algorithms keeping in mind that a performance analysis should be conducted to show the efficiency of the proposed scheme against the ones provided in the literature.
The platform could be build using different DT platforms presented in the literature like: Azure, Simul8, Simumatik, or Ditto.
Requirements:
• Affinity with cryptography.
• Interest in secure computation.
• Programming skills to build a prototype.
Related reading and references:
1. Empl, P., Schlette, D., Zupfer, D. and Pernul, G., 2022, August. SOAR4IoT: Securing IoT Assets with Digital Twins. In Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (pp. 1-10).
2. Canedo, A., 2016, October. Industrial IoT lifecycle via digital twins. In Proceedings of the Eleventh IEEE/ACM/IFIP International Conference on Hardware/Software Codesign and System Synthesis (pp. 1-1).
3. Alshammari, K., Beach, T. and Rezgui, Y., 2021. Cybersecurity for digital twins in the built environment: current research and future directions. Journal of Information Technology in Construction, 26, pp.159-173.