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Proceedings of the 18th Conference on Computer Science and Intelligence Systems

Annals of Computer Science and Information Systems, Volume 35

An Experimental Framework for Secure and Reliable Data Streams Distribution in Federated IoT Environments

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.15439/2023F3882

Citation: Proceedings of the 18th Conference on Computer Science and Intelligence Systems, M. Ganzha, L. Maciaszek, M. Paprzycki, D. Ślęzak (eds). ACSIS, Vol. 35, pages 769–780 ()

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Abstract. An increasing number of Internet of Things (IoT) applications are based on a federated environment. Examples include the creation of federations of NATO countries and non-NATO entities participating in missions (Federated Mission Networking) or the interaction of civilian services and the military when providing Humanitarian Assistance And Disaster Relief. Federations are often formed on an ad hoc basis, with the primary goal of combining forces in a federated mission environment at any time, on short notice, and with optimization of the resources involved. One of the leading security challenges in a federated environment of separate IoT administrative domains is effective identity and access management, which is the basis for establishing a relationship of trust and secure communication between IoT devices belonging to different partners. When carrying out missions involving the military and ensuring security, meeting requirements for immediate interoperability is important. In the paper, an attempt has been made to develop a system architecture framework for secure and reliable data streams distribution in a multi-organizational federation environment, where data authentication is based on IoT device identity (fingerprint). Moreover, a hardware-software IoT gateway has been proposed for the verification process and the integration of Hyperledger Fabric's distributed ledger technology, the Apache Kafka message broker, and data-processing microservices implemented using the Kafka Streams API library. The performance tests conducted confirm the suitability of the developed system framework for processing and distributing audio-video data in a federation IoT environment. Also, a high-level security and reliability assessment was conducted in the paper.

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