Building a reliable Internet of Things using Information-Centric Networking

Abstract

Recent developments in sensors, devices, identification technologies, and wireless networking have fueled the vision of the Internet of Things (IoT). Small devices with processing, sensing, and connectivity capabilities can be connected to the Internet and produce vast amounts of meaningful information. At the same time identification technologies, such as RFID, enable the association of information with “things”. The information produced by things, or associated with things, will be both huge and sensitive. For this reason new architectures for disseminating and processing this information in a reliable and efficient way should be explored. In this paper, we present an architecture for the IoT, based on the Information-Centric Networking (ICN) paradigm. ICN architectures are built around information and information identifiers and they provide mechanisms for advertising, finding, and retrieving information. We leverage a particular ICN architecture, the Publish-Subscribe Internetworking architecture, to design an IoT architecture and we present three security solutions that enable access control, secure delegation of information storage and trust based on information identifiers.