NovaGenesis Applied to Information-Centric, Service-Defined, Trustable IoT/WSAN Control Plane and Spectrum Management

Abstract

We integrate, for the first time in the literature, the following ingredients to deal with emerging dynamic spectrum management (DSM) problem in heterogeneous wireless sensors and actuators networks (WSANs), Internet of things (IoT) and Wi-Fi: (i) named-based routing to provide provenance and location-independent access to control plane; (ii) temporary storage of control data for efficient and cohesive control dissemination, as well as asynchronous communication between software-controllers and devices; (iii) contract-based control to improve trust-ability of actions; (iv) service-defined configuration of wireless devices, approximating their configurations to real services needs. The work is implemented using NovaGenesis architecture and a proof-of-concept is evaluated in a real scenario, demonstrating our approach to automate radio frequency channel optimization in Wi-Fi and IEEE 802.15.4 networks in the 2.4 GHz bands. An integrated cognitive radio system provides the dual-mode best channel indications for novel DSM services in NovaGenesis. By reconfiguring Wi-Fi/IoT devices to best channels, the proposed solution more than doubles the network throughput, when compared to the case of mutual interference. Therefore, environments equipped with the proposal provide enhanced performance to their users.

Platforms for Smart Environments and Future Internet Design: A Survey

“…The key aspects selected for discussing and comparing smart environment proposals and their platforms and middleware have been obtained from previous work in smart environments performed in the context of future Internet [1], [7]- [16]. Since, the amount of relevant aspects is enormous and it is virtually impossible to include all the relevant ones, the approach taken here has been to select the requirements addressed in two previous work from Alberti et al [1], [19].…”

“…They are related to the NovaGenesis future Internet architecture, which has been designed to support IoT and smart environment needs since 2008. NovaGenesis [1], [16], [19], [36], NDN [18], and Mobility-First already summarized many of the requirements for future smart environments and therefore some of its key aspects are representative for this task. They are:…”

“…Edge computing is also interesting for smart environments and it is explored by some proposals. [16], [19]. They provide a powerful tool for supporting security, privacy and trust (SPT) [18], as well as service compose ability [1], [16].…”

“…Due to the convergence of so many technologies and non-technical aspects, designing smart environments is a quite big challenge. It has been the subject of research not only with current Internet technologies (and cloud computing), but also with new architectures, especially the ones behind future Internet (FI) research [1], [7]- [16]. In this context, future Internet can be defined as alternative architectures for the Internet.…”

Control Networks and Smart Grid Teleprotection: Key Aspects, Technologies, Protocols, and Case-Studies

“…Future Internet architectures (FIAs) have been proposed since 2002 with this aim. The authors of this article have been deeply involved in a FIA proposal called NovaGenesis [23], [280]- [282]. NovaGenesis is founded into four pillars: (i) support for unlimited name spaces and hierarchical name resolution; (ii) everythingas-a-service (XaaS) and protocols-implemented-as-a-service (PIaaS); (iii) name-based and contract driven entities life cycling; and (iv) representatives of physical things (digital twins).…”