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Sufficiently strong security and privacy mechanisms are prerequisite to amass the promising benefits of the IoT technology and to incorporate this technology into our daily lives. This paper introduces a novel approach to privacy in…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-04-19 Zygmunt J. Haas , Ashkan Yousefpour

The Consumer Internet of Things (CIoT), a notable segment within the IoT domain, involves the integration of IoT technology into consumer electronics and devices, such as smart homes and smart wearables. Compared to traditional IoT fields,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-15 Yan Jia , Yuxin Song , Zihou Liu , Qingyin Tan , Yang Song , Yu Zhang , Zheli Liu

Behavioral transparency for Internet-of-Things (IoT) networked assets involves two distinct yet interconnected tasks: (a) characterizing device types by discerning the patterns exhibited in their network traffic, and (b) assessing…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-04-12 Savindu Wannigama , Arunan Sivanathan , Ayyoob Hamza , Hassan Habibi Gharakheili

Internet of Things (IoT) is a disruptive technology with applications across diverse domains such as transportation and logistics systems, smart grids, smart homes, connected vehicles, and smart cities. Alongside the growth of these…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-12-24 Junaid Arshad , Muhammad Ajmal Azad , Khaled Salah , Wei Jie , Razi Iqbal , Mamoun Alazab

Consumer Internet of Things (IoT) devices are extremely popular, providing users with rich and diverse functionalities, from voice assistants to home appliances. These functionalities often come with significant privacy and security risks,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-10-01 Said Jawad Saidi , Anna Maria Mandalari , Roman Kolcun , Hamed Haddadi , Daniel J. Dubois , David Choffnes , Georgios Smaragdakis , Anja Feldmann

The rapid expansion of Internet of Things (IoT) devices in smart homes has significantly improved the quality of life, offering enhanced convenience, automation, and energy efficiency. However, this proliferation of connected devices raises…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Nazar Waheed , Fazlullah Khan , Spyridon Mastorakis , Mian Ahmad Jan , Abeer Z. Alalmaie , Priyadarsi Nanda

Recent advances in wireless technologies have enabled many new applications in Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) such as collision avoidance, cooperative driving, congestion avoidance, and traffic optimization. Due to the vulnerable…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2012-10-22 Mina Guirguis , George Atia

In recent times, the research works relating to smart traffic infrastructure have gained serious attention. As a result, research has been carried out in multiple directions to ensure that such infrastructure can improve upon our existing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-09-28 Anubhab Baksi , Ahmed Ibrahim Samir Khalil , Anupam Chattopadhyay

Internet of Things (IoT) is a novel paradigm, which not only facilitates a large number of devices to be ubiquitously connected over the Internet but also provides a mechanism to remotely control these devices. The IoT is pervasive and is…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-02-26 Samundra Deep , Xi Zheng , Alireza Jolfaei , Dongjin Yu , Pouya Ostovari , Ali Kashif Bashir

The Internet of Things (IoT) is an exploding market as well as a important focus area for research. Security is a major issue for IoT products and solutions, with several massive problems that are still commonplace in the field. In this…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-09-01 Ishaan Lodha , Lakshana Kolur , K. Sree Hari , Honnavalli Prasad

The rapid advances in the Internet of Things (IoT) have promoted a revolution in communication technology and offered various customer services. Artificial intelligence (AI) techniques have been exploited to facilitate IoT operations and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-06-24 Ons Aouedi , Thai-Hoc Vu , Alessio Sacco , Dinh C. Nguyen , Kandaraj Piamrat , Guido Marchetto , Quoc-Viet Pham

Motivated by privacy issues caused by inference attacks on user activities in the packet sizes and timing information of Internet of Things (IoT) network traffic, we establish a rigorous event-level differential privacy (DP) model on…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-01 Sijie Xiong , Anand D. Sarwate , Narayan B. Mandayam

With the popularity of smartphones, mobile applications (apps) have penetrated the daily life of people. Although apps provide rich functionalities, they also access a large amount of personal information simultaneously. As a result,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-12-24 Shuang Zhao , Shuhui Chen , Ziling Wei

Despite encryption, the packet size is still visible, enabling observers to infer private information in the Internet of Things (IoT) environment (e.g., IoT device identification). Packet padding obfuscates packet-length characteristics…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-09-13 Mnassar Alyami , Abdulmajeed Alghamdi , Mohammed Alkhowaiter , Cliff Zou , Yan Solihin

With the development of IoT technologies in the past few years, a wide range of smart devices are deployed in a variety of environments aiming to improve the quality of human life in a cost efficient way. Due to the increasingly serious…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-01-23 Ming-Chang Lee , Jia-Chun Lin , Olaf Owe

Smart homes are increasingly populated with heterogeneous Internet of Things (IoT) devices that interact continuously with users and the environment. This diversity introduces critical challenges in device identification, authentication,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Eduardo Baena , Han Yang , Dimitrios Koutsonikolas , Israat Haque

In the context of the emerging Internet of Things (IoT), a proliferation of wireless connectivity can be expected. That ubiquitous wireless communication will be hard to centrally manage and control, and can be expected to be opaque to end…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-01-19 Sandra Siby , Rajib Ranjan Maiti , Nils Tippenhauer

With the growth of internet of things (IoT) devices, cyberattacks, such as distributed denial of service, that exploit vulnerable devices infected with malware have increased. Therefore, vendors and users must keep their device firmware…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-03-06 Naoto Watanabe , Taku Yamazaki , Takumi Miyoshi , Ryo Yamamoto , Masataka Nakahara , Norihiro Okui , Ayumu Kubota

The Internet of Things (IoT) promises to improve user utility by tuning applications to user behavior, but revealing the characteristics of a user's behavior presents a significant privacy risk. Our previous work has established the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-07-14 Nazanin Takbiri , Minting Chen , Dennis L. Goeckel , Amir Houmansadr , Hossein Pishro-Nik

Desktops and laptops can be maliciously exploited to violate privacy. In this paper, we consider the daily battle between the passive attacker who is targeting a specific user against a user that may be adversarial opponent. In this…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Amit Dvir , Yehonatan Zion , Jonathan Muehlstein , Ofir Pele , Chen Hajaj , Ran Dubin