LCN Keynote Presentations
Sensor-less Sensing: The Future of Ubiquitous Context-Awareness
Prof. Moustafa Youssef
Egypt-Japan University of Science and TechnologyAlexandria, Egypt
ABSTRACT
RF-based device-free (DF) context-awareness is an emerging field that enables the detection, tracking, and identification of entities that do not carry any devices nor participate actively in the sensing process using the already installed wireless infrastructure. The DF concept utilizes the fact that RF characteristics are functions of the surrounding environment. Changes in the received physical signals can be used to identify the presence of humans and objects, track them, as well as identify their characteristics. DF systems are attractive for many practical applications including intrusion detection and tracking, sensor-less sensing, low cost surveillance, home automation, and interactive visual display systems for museums and retail stores. Based on its characteristics, DF sensing fits the vision of ubiquitous computing, where each device in the environment can be potentially used to sense the human behavior. In this talk, I will cover different DF systems used for intrusion detection, localisation, activity recognition, among others based on ubiquitous wireless technologies such as WiFi, FM, and cellular networks. The talk ends by a road-map for open research challenges and future directions.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
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Moustafa Youssef is a professor at Alexandria University and Egypt-Japan University of Science and Technology (E-JUST) and founder & director of the Wireless Research Center of Excellence, Egypt. His research interests include mobile wireless networks, mobile computing, location determination technologies, pervasive computing, and network security. He has tens of issued and pending patents. He is the Lead Guest Editor of the upcoming IEEE Computer Special Issue on Transformative Technologies, an Associate Editor for the IEEE TMC, an Associate Editor for ACM TSAS, served as an Area Editor of ACM MC2R as well as on the organizing and technical committees of numerous prestigious conferences. He is the recipient of the 2003 University of Maryland Invention of the Year award, the 2010 TWAS-AAS-Microsoft Award for Young Scientists, the 2013 and 2014 COMESA Innovation Award, the 2013 ACM SIGSpatial GIS Conference Best Paper Award, the 2017 Egyptian State Award, multiple Google Research Awards, among many others. He is an ACM Distinguished Speaker and an ACM Distinguished Scientist. |
Security and Privacy Considerations for Legacy and Future IoT Systems
Dr. Klara Nahrstedt
University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignU.S.A.
ABSTRACT
For several years now, IoT (Internet of Things) sensors and their corresponding cyber-infrastructure systems have been in place in various application domains including scientific instrumentation, power grid, health-care and others, becoming legacy IoT systems to care for by many IoT cyber-infrastructure providers. Furthermore, with the development of new sensing IoT devices, new IoT services and systems are emerging, waiting to be deployed.
In this talk, we examine security challenges that are coming up with the legacy IoT systems, and discuss possible solutions via edge computing to enable older IoT devices serve longer in various IoT application domains. We present a concrete example, the BRACELET edge-cloud solution, to illustrate the protection of aging IoT devices in scientific instrumentation domain. We also elaborate on security and privacy threats in future IoT systems, give examples, and discuss the “good and bad” with new sensors/IoT devices in health-care domain.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
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Klara Nahrstedt is the Ralph and Catherine Fisher Professor in the Computer Science Department, and Director of Coordinated Science Laboratory in the College of Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her research interests are directed toward tele-immersive systems, end-to-end Quality of Service (QoS) and resource management in large scale distributed systems and networks, and real-time security and privacy in cyber-physical systems such as power grid. She is the co-author of multimedia books Multimedia: Computing, Communications and Applications published by Prentice Hall, and Multimedia Systems published by Springer Verlag. She is the recipient of the IEEE Communication Society Leonard Abraham Award for Research Achievements, University Scholar, Humboldt Award, IEEE Computer Society Technical Achievement Award, ACM SIGMM Technical Achievement Award, and the former chair of the ACM Special Interest Group in Multimedia. She was the general co-chair and TPC co-chair of many international conferences including ACM Multimedia, IEEE Percom, IEEE IOTDI and others. Klara Nahrstedt received her Diploma in Mathematics from Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany in numerical analysis in 1985. In 1995 she received her PhD from the University of Pennsylvania in the Department of Computer and Information Science. She is ACM Fellow, IEEE Fellow, and Member of the German National Academy of Sciences (Leopoldina Society). |
