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Enhancing context data distribution for the internet of things using qoc-awareness and attribute-based access control

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The Internet of Things (IoT) enables producers of context data like sensors to interact with remote consumers of context data like smart pervasive applications in an entirely decoupled way. However, two important issues are faced by context data distribution, namely providing context information with a sufficient level of quality—i.e. quality of context (QoC)—while preserving the privacy of context owners. This article presents the solutions provided by the INCOME middleware framework for addressing these two potentially contradictory issues while hiding the complexity of context data distribution in heterogeneous and large-scale environments. Context producers and consumers not only express their needs in context contracts but also the guarantees they are ready to fulfil. These contracts are then translated into advertisement and subscription filters to determine how to distribute context data. Our experiments on a first open source prototype show that QoC-based filtering and privacy protection using attributed-based access control can be performed at a reasonable cost.

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  1. muDEBS stands for multiscale Distributed Event-Based System.

  2. muContext stands for multiscale Context data manager.

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Acknowledgments

This work is part of the French National Research Agency (ANR) project INCOMEFootnote 6 (ANR-11-INFR-009, 2012-2015). The authors thank all the members of the project who contributed directly or indirectly to this article. We also want to thank the referees for their useful suggestions.

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  1. Institut Mines-Télécom/Télécom SudParis, UMR CNRS 5157 SAMOVAR, 9 rue Charles Fourier, 91011, Évry, France

    Léon Lim, Denis Conan, Sophie Chabridon & Atif Manzoor

  2. Université de Toulouse, IRIT UMR 5505, Toulouse, France

    Pierrick Marie & Thierry Desprats

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This work was performed while Atif Manzoor was on stay at Télécom SudParis

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Lim, L., Marie, P., Conan, D. et al. Enhancing context data distribution for the internet of things using qoc-awareness and attribute-based access control. Ann. Telecommun. 71, 121–132 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12243-015-0480-9

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