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Education and Innovation in Embedded Systems Design

USI Università della Svizzera italiana, USI Faculty of Informatics, Advanced Learning and Research Institute USI Università della Svizzera italiana USI Faculty of Informatics USI Advanced Learning and Research Institute

AETHER+ Towards self-adaptive security for pervasive computing architectures

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The future pervasive systems will be focused on distributed heterogeneous systems designed with increased autonomy and operating under high uncertainty. In this context, self-adaptive computing can provide an efficient and disruptive response to the design of such ubiquitous systems by providing dynamicity, efficient use of system resources and support for live maintenance, extensibility and evolving requirements. In AETHER+ project different security approaches presented in the scientific literature have been extended by proposing a new design methodology and algorithms for supporting self-adaptive selection of the most suitable security solutions based on available system resources. In particular, a comprehensive model of system supporting self-adaptive security has been introduced. Moreover, two adaptation mechanisms, as implementation of such a model in the context of Wireless Sensor Network (WSN), have been implemented. Proposed approaches can be used to enhance the design of future nodes aimed at increasing their lifetime by selecting the best security solutions according to nodes energy conditions. Effectiveness of proposed solution has been evaluated by means of both simulations and experiments on a real hardware prototype.

Head of project at USI Mariagiovanna Sami
ALaRI Personnell Alberto Ferrante
Antonio Taddeo
Francesco Regazzoni
Starting date Sunday, November 1, 2009
Duration (months) 8
Funding Agency Hasler Foundation
Research area Ubiquitous and Pervasive Computing
Security
Project ID 09083-2043-021
Status Over