2023-06458 - PhD Position F/M Ensuring Availability of Internet-connected Constrained Wireless Networks
Contract type : Fixed-term contract
Level of qualifications required : Graduate degree or equivalent
Fonction : PhD Position
ContextThe PhD position in the scope of the PEPR 5G project HiSec. The HiSec project focuses on cyber-security issues in future networks. These networks have played a key role in service delivery for digital infrastructures. These new networking technologies have also penetrated essential and critical services for our daily lives, such as energy, transportation or healthcare.
AssignmentWith the global reachability enabled by the IP connectivity, IoT devices are easy Denial-of-Service (DoS) targets. Ensuring service availability has many challenges with battery-powered or energy-harvested IoT devices. Every packet forwarded into the constrained network has an impact on the resource consumption of network nodes. We will study techniques that will enable IoT gateways to filter out the undesired traffic before forwarding it into the IoT network and detect suspicious activity.
Coarse-grained filtering with firewalls or VPNs alleviates but does not resolve the problem in the case of internal attackers or compromised hosts. Mechanisms based on state-of-the-art Internet technologies like object security allow us to do much finer control over the traffic that is forwarded into the network. With the gateway in the same security domain as the IoT devices, we can inspect authorization (proof-of-possession) tokens and validate them cryptographically before forwarding the traffic into the network. We aim at enabling true end-to-end IP connectivity of IoT devices, while shielding them from DoS attacks as if they were in a proprietary network.
Main activitiesWe will design and evaluate architectures and statefull packet filtering techniques. The IoT gateway will enforce the deployed security policies by cryptographically verifying the application traffic origin and its data authenticity.
SkillsTheme/Domain : Networks and Telecommunications System & Networks (BAP E)
Town/city : Paris
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