Analyzing the applicability of Internet of Things to the battlefield environment

Suri, Niranjan; Tortonesi, Mauro; Michaelis, James; Budulas, Peter; Benincasa, Giacomo; Russell, Stephen; Stefanelli, Cesare; Winkler, Robert

doi:10.1109/icmcis.2016.7496574

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“…We have to remark the distinction between ad-hoc IoT military deployments and already established civil deployments that have to be protected. Examples of IoT deployment are numerous [34], but the following cases are illustrative of areas where the civil deployment has achieved significant benefits that can be leveraged by the military. They include transportation, energy efficiency, inventory managements, or mining.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Butun et al [31] propose a lightweight, cloud-centric, multi-level authentication as a service approach that addresses scalability and time constraints for IoT devices surrounding PS responders. References [10,32,33,34] contain short surveys for leveraging the IoT for a more efficient military. The authors of [35,36,37] focus on security challenges, while TCG drafts a guideline for securing IoT networks [38].…”

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confidence: 99%

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A Review on Internet of Things for Defense and Public Safety

Fraga‐Lamas

Fernández‐Caramés

Suárez-Albela

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Sensors

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The Internet of Things (IoT) is undeniably transforming the way that organizations communicate and organize everyday businesses and industrial procedures. Its adoption has proven well suited for sectors that manage a large number of assets and coordinate complex and distributed processes. This survey analyzes the great potential for applying IoT technologies (i.e., data-driven applications or embedded automation and intelligent adaptive systems) to revolutionize modern warfare and provide benefits similar to those in industry. It identifies scenarios where Defense and Public Safety (PS) could leverage better commercial IoT capabilities to deliver greater survivability to the warfighter or first responders, while reducing costs and increasing operation efficiency and effectiveness. This article reviews the main tactical requirements and the architecture, examining gaps and shortcomings in existing IoT systems across the military field and mission-critical scenarios. The review characterizes the open challenges for a broad deployment and presents a research roadmap for enabling an affordable IoT for defense and PS.

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Section: Compelling Cots Iot Applicationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Review on Internet of Things for Defense and Public Safety

Fraga‐Lamas

Fernández‐Caramés

Suárez-Albela

et al. 2016

Sensors

192

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“…In a military environment, IoT technologies provide new ways for managing and operating a battlefield by interconnecting combat equipment, soldier devices, and other battlefield resources [2]. This integration of the IoT with military networks is referred to as the Internet of Battlefield Things (IoBT) [1]. In an IoBT, the connectivity between the wearables carried by the soldiers and other IoBT devices, such as multipurpose sensors, autonomous vehicles, and drones, plays a significant role in the mission-critical battlefield operations [3].…”

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confidence: 99%

Dynamic Psychological Game Theory for Secure Internet of Battlefield Things (IoBT) Systems

Sanjab

Saad

2019

IEEE Internet Things J.

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In this paper, a novel anti-jamming mechanism is proposed to analyze and enhance the security of adversarial Internet of Battlefield Things (IoBT) systems. In particular, the problem is formulated as a dynamic psychological game between a soldier and an attacker. In this game, the soldier seeks to accomplish a time-critical mission by traversing a battlefield within a certain amount of time, while maintaining its connectivity with an IoBT network. The attacker, on the other hand, seeks to find the optimal opportunity to compromise the IoBT network and maximize the delay of the soldier's IoBT transmission link. The soldier and the attacker's psychological behavior are captured using tools from psychological game theory, with which the soldier's and attacker's intentions to harm one another are considered in their utilities. To solve this game, a novel learning algorithm based on Bayesian updating is proposed to find a ǫ-like psychological self-confirming equilibrium of the game. Simulation results show that, based on the error-free beliefs on the attacker's psychological strategies and beliefs, the soldier's material payoff can be improved by up to 15.11% compared to a conventional dynamic game without psychological considerations.

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“…T HE Internet of Things (IoT) is expected to revolutionize the military battlefield in various aspects [1]- [3]. By interconnecting all military units, including soldiers and vehicles, with various IoT devices, sensors, and actuators, the IoT provides autonomy in the battlefield and increases the efficiency of military networks.…”

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Dynamic Connectivity Game for Adversarial Internet of Battlefield Things Systems

Abuzainab

Saad

2018

IEEE Internet Things J.

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In this paper, the problem of network connectivity is studied for an adversarial Internet of Battlefield Things (IoBT) system in which an attacker aims at disrupting the connectivity of the network by choosing to compromise one of the IoBT nodes at each time epoch. To counter such attacks, an IoBT defender attempts to reestablish the IoBT connectivity by either deploying new IoBT nodes or by changing the roles of existing nodes. This problem is formulated as a dynamic multistage Stackelberg connectivity game that extends classical connectivity games and that explicitly takes into account the characteristics and requirements of the IoBT network. In particular, the defender's payoff captures the IoBT latency as well as the sum of weights of disconnected nodes at each stage of the game. Due to the dependence of the attacker's and defender's actions at each stage of the game on the network state, the feedback Stackelberg solution (FSE) is used to solve the IoBT connectivity game. Then, sufficient conditions under which the IoBT system will remain connected, when the FSE solution is used, are determined analytically. Numerical results show that the expected number of disconnected sensors, when the FSE solution is used, decreases up to 46% compared to a baseline scenario in which a Stackelberg game with no feedback is used, and up to 43% compared to a baseline equal probability policy. Ca,t(at, bt) otherwise.The expression of the defender's utility is given by U d,t (at, bt) =    u i , if bt = b d,ih , u L , if bt = b L,h , 0, otherwise.

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Analyzing the applicability of Internet of Things to the battlefield environment

Cited by 78 publications

References 39 publications

A Review on Internet of Things for Defense and Public Safety

A Review on Internet of Things for Defense and Public Safety

Dynamic Psychological Game Theory for Secure Internet of Battlefield Things (IoBT) Systems

Dynamic Connectivity Game for Adversarial Internet of Battlefield Things Systems

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