Ubiquitous and Secure Networks and Services
As taught in: Fall 2010
ANA BELÉN GARCÍA HERNANDO (COORDINATOR)
LOURDES LÓPEZ SANTIDRIÁN
JOSÉ FERNÁN MARTÍNEZ ORTEGA
Department of Telematic Engineering and Architectures
Technical University of Madrid
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This subject is taught during the first semester of the "MSc in Systems and Services Engineering for the Information
Society" (Máster en Ingeniería de Sistemas y Servicios para la Sociedad de la Información), being compulsory in the
professional itinerary and optional in the research itinerary of the curriculum. In order to be able to follow it it is
strongly advisable to have a previous background on the main telematic concepts related to communication
networks, protocols and services, since these basic concepts will not be part of its contents. Its 5 ECTS correspond to
a total of around 133 hours of student's work, including both theory- and practical- (i.e. laboratory-) oriented
activities. Three hours a week are devoted to classroom lectures and activities.
Lecturers:
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Ana Belén García Hernando (Coordinator)
Lourdes López Santidrián
José Fernán Martínez Ortega
Laboratory assistant instructor:
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Pedro Castillejo Parrilla
ECTS: 5.
Degree: MSc in Systems and Services Engineering for the Information Society.
Revision: October 2011.
Syllabus
The complete learning guide for this subject can be obtained here [RSUS-Learning-Guide.pdf].
The weekly scheduling of the different units and milestones can be obtained here [RSUS-weekly-scheduling.pdf].
PREVIOUS REQUIRED BACKGROUND
Any of the following graduates (or students with demonstrable equivalent knowledge) may access this course:
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Graduate in Communication Electronics Engineering.
Graduate in Telecommunication Systems Engineering.
Graduate in Sound and Image Engineering.
Graduate in Telematic Engineering.
COURSE OBJECTIVES
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Be capable of performing independent learning during their professional career.
Be capable of projecting, calculating and designing systems and services for the Information Society.
Be capable of applying and integrating the acquired knowledge to solve problems in new environments,
inside broader and multidisciplinary contexts, in the framework of their expertise area.
Be capable of performing research, development and innovation activities in the context of the Information
Society.
Be capable of developing systems that offer ubiquitous and secure services.
Be capable of critically interpreting and assessing scientific documents in the area of the Information and
Communication Technologies.
Be capable of communicating and disseminating their research results.
LEARNING OUTCOMES
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Classify the ubiquitous services and applications according to their technical characteristics.
Explain the technological characteristics of the architectures, platforms, networks and protocols that offer
ubiquitous services and applications.
Analyze the security threats to be considered in a ubiquitous system, according to both the
application/service and the network environment.
Assess the security methods to neutralize the threats present in a ubiquitous system.
Design a system that offers a ubiquitous application or service, having a set of specifications and technical
requirements as input.
Implement a ubiquitous system, having its design as input.
COURSE MATERIALS
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Lecture notes with the relevant class information for each unit.
Case studies: additional required readings for each unit, together with the associated forms.
Labs and practical project: this course includes an introductory lab exercise as well as an assignment that
consists on the development of a complete project.
Lecture Notes
UNIT
UNIT 1 - Introduction to ubiquitous systems. (Author:
Lourdes López Santidrián)
UNIT 2 - Applications and services. (Author: Ana Belén
García Hernando)
UNIT 3 - Architectures and models. (Authors: José
Fernán Martínez Ortega and Iván Corredor Pérez)
UNIT 4 - Network technologies. (Author: Ana Belén
García Hernando)
UNIT 5 - Ubiquitous systems security. (Author: Lourdes
López Santidrián)
Link to the material
RSUS-Unit-1-Slides
RSUS-Unit-2-Slides
RSUS-Unit-2-Video about the SODA project.avi
RSUS-Unit-3-Slides
RSUS-Unit-4-Slides
RSUS-Unit-5-Slides
Assignments: Case Studies
UNIT 1 (Introduction to ubiquitous systems) Case Studies:
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Case Study 1: Boonsri Dickinson. “With ’smart dust,’ a trillion sensors scattered around the globe”. May
2010. Available online from: [http://www.smartplanet.com/blog/science-scope/with-smart-dust-a-trillionsensors-scattered-around-the-globe/1673].
Case Study 2: Delphine Christin, Andreas Reinhardt, Parag S. Mogre, Ralf Steinmetz. “Wireless Sensor
Networks and the Internet of Things: Selected Challenges”. Multimedia Communications Lab, Technische
Universität Darmstadt. August 2009. Available online from: [http://www.ti5.tuharburg.de/events/fgsn09/proceedings/fgsn_031.pdf].
Case Study 3: Wayne W. Manges. “Wireless Sensor Network Topologies”. Sensors Magazine. May 2000.
Available online from: [http://archives.sensorsmag.com/articles/0500/72/index.htm].
Case Study form [RSUS-Unit-1-Case-Study-Form.doc].
UNIT 2 (Applications and services) Case Studies:
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Case Study 1: Wen-Tsuen Chen, Po-Yu Chen, Wei-Shun Lee, Chi-Fu Huang. "Design and Implementation of a
Real Time Video Surveillance System with Wireless Sensor Networks". IEEE Vehicular Technology
Conference, 2008, pp. 218-222. 11-14 May 2008.
Case Study 2: Junguo Zhang, Wenbin Li, Zhongxing Yin, Shengbo Liu, Xiaolin Guo. "Forest fire detection
system based on wireless sensor network". 4th IEEE Conference on Industrial Electronics and Applications,
ICIEA 2009, pp. 520-523. 25-27 May 2009.
Case Study 3: Barbato, A.; Borsani, L.; Capone, A. "A Wireless Sensor Network Based System for Reducing
Home Energy Consumption". 7th Annual IEEE Communications Society Conference on Sensor Mesh and Ad
Hoc Communications and Networks (SECON), pp. 1-3. 21-25 June 2010.
Case Study 4, sections 6, 8, 9 and 10 of: Reiner Jedermann and Walter Lang. “The Benefits of Embedded
Intelligence – Tasks and Applications for Ubiquitous Computing in Logistics”. Lecture Notes in Computer
Science, 2008, Volume 4952/2008, pp. 105-122.
Case Study form [RSUS-Unit-2-Case-Study-Form.doc].
UNIT 3 (Architectures and models) Case Studies:
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Case Study 1: Matt Welsh, Geoff Mainland. “Programming Sensor Networks Using Abstract Regions”.
Proceedings of the 1st conference on Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation Volume 1. 2004.
Case Study 2: Abdelzaher, T.; Blum, B.; Cao, Q.; Chen, Y.; Evans, D.; George, J.; George, S.; Gu, L.; He, T.;
Krishnamurthy, S.; Luo, L.; Son, S.; Stankovic, J.; Stoleru, R.; Wood, A. "EnviroTrack: towards an
environmental computing paradigm for distributed sensor networks". 24th International Conference on
Distributed Computing Systems, 2004, pp. 582- 589. 2004.
Case Study 3: Kamin Whitehouse, Cory Sharp, Eric Brewer, and David Culler. “Hood: a neighborhood
abstraction for sensor networks”. In Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Mobile systems,
applications, and services (MobiSys '04). ACM, New York, NY, USA. pp. 99-110. 2004.
Case Study 4: A. L. Murphy and W. B. Heinzelman. “Milan: Middleware Linking Applications and Networks”.
Technical Report. University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA. 2002.
Case Study form [RSUS-Unit-3-Case-Study-Form.doc].
UNIT 4 (Network technologies) Case Studies:
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Instructions and form for Unit 4 case study: [RSUS-Unit-4-Case-Study-Instructions-and-Form.doc].
Bachir, A.; Dohler, M.; Watteyne, T.; Leung, K.K. "MAC Essentials for Wireless Sensor Networks". IEEE
Communications Surveys & Tutorials. Volume: 12, Issue: 2. 2010. Pp. 222 – 248.
Kemal Akkaya, Mohamed F. Younis "A survey on routing protocols for wireless sensor networks". Ad Hoc
Networks 3(3). Pp. 325-349. 2005.
Felemban, E.; Chang-Gun Lee; Ekici, E. "MMSPEED: multipath Multi-SPEED protocol for QoS guarantee of
reliability and timeliness in wireless sensor networks". IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, Volume: 5,
Issue: 6. 2006. Pp. 738 – 754.
UNIT 5 (Ubiquitous systems security) Case Studies:
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Case Study 1: Ming Li; Wenjing Lou; Kui Ren. "Data security and privacy in wireless body area networks". IEEE
Wireless Communications, vol.17, no.1, pp.51-58, February 2010.
Case Study 2: Kun Sun, An Liu, Roger Xu, Peng Ning, and Douglas Maughan. “Securing network access in
wireless sensor networks”. In Proceedings of the second ACM conference on Wireless network security
(WiSec '09). ACM, New York, NY, USA, pp. 261-268. 2009.
Case Study 3: Rung-Ching Chen, Chia-Fen Hsieh, and Yung-Fa Huang. “A new method for intrusion detection
on hierarchical wireless sensor networks”. In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Ubiquitous
Information Management and Communication (ICUIMC '09). ACM, New York, NY, USA, pp. 238-245. 2009.
Case Study 4: Tahir Naeem, Kok-Keong Loo. “Common Security Issues and Challenges in Wireless Sensor
Networks and IEEE 802.11 Wireless Mesh Networks”. International Journal of Digital Content Technology
and its Applications, Volume 3, Number 1. March 2009.
Case Study form [RSUS-Unit-5-Case-Study-Form.doc].
Assignments: Labs and Practical Project
Authors of Labs and Practical Project documentation: Pedro Castillejo Parrilla, Ana Belén
García Hernando, José Fernán Martínez Ortega, Lourdes López Santidrián.
Slides: SunSpot Development Platform. [RSUS-Unit-6-Slides.pptx]
Lab exercise: Introduction to SunSpot Environment. [RSUS-Unit-6-Lab-exercise.pdf]
Practical Project: Requirements and general information. [RSUS-Unit-6-Project-requirements.pdf]
Additional Resources
Some online resources useful for this Unit:
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About JAVA
- JAVA tutorials for beginners. We recommend you to read and follow either (or both) of the following
JAVA tutorials if you have never programmed in this language:
 The Java Tutorials <http://download.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/index.html>. Inside section
"Trails Covering the Basics", you can follow the following tutorials at least: "Getting Started",
"Learning the Java Language", and "Essential Java Classes".
 JAVA for Beginners
<http://moodle.upm.es/titulaciones/oficiales/file.php/2161/project/bibliography/JAVA-forBeginners.pdf>. Riccardo Flask. It includes lots of code examples.
- Java Platform, Standard Edition 7 API Specification
<http://download.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/>. Use this as a reference for using the methods
provided by some of the main Java libraries.
About SunSPOT
- Sun SPOT Tutorials <http://sunspotworld.com/docs/Yellow/Tutorial/Tutorial.html>
- API specification for the Sun SPOT Libraries
<http://sunspotworld.com/docs/Yellow/javadoc/index.html>
Authors
Dr. Ana Belén García Hernando
Associate Professor. Department of Telematic
Engineering and Architectures (DIATEL), Technical
University of Madrid (UPM).
Dr. Lourdes López Santidrián
Associate Professor. Department of Telematic
Engineering and Architectures (DIATEL), Technical
University of Madrid (UPM).
Dr. José Fernán Martínez Ortega
Associate Professor. Department of Telematic
Engineering and Architectures (DIATEL), Technical
University of Madrid (UPM).
MSc. Pedro Castillejo Parrilla
Researcher. Department of Telematic Engineering and
Architectures (DIATEL), Technical University of Madrid
(UPM).
MSc. Iván Corredor Pérez
Researcher. Technical University of Madrid (UPM).
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Acknowledgements
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