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  • Name

    Ricardo Augusto Rodrigues
  • Role

    Assistant Researcher
  • Since

    08th November 2023
Publications

2021

A Comprehensive Worst Case Bounds Analysis of IEEE 802.15.7

Authors
Kurunathan, H; Severino, R; Tovar, E;

Publication
JOURNAL OF SENSOR AND ACTUATOR NETWORKS

Abstract
Visible Light Communication (VLC) has been emerging as a promising technology to address the increasingly high data-rate and time-critical demands that the Internet of Things (IoT) and 5G paradigms impose on the underlying Wireless Sensor Actuator Networking (WSAN) technologies. In this line, the IEEE 802.15.7 standard proposes several physical layers and Medium Access Control (MAC) sub-layer mechanisms that support a variety of VLC applications. Particularly, at the MAC sub-layer, it can support contention-free communications using Guaranteed Timeslots (GTS), introducing support for time-critical applications. However, to effectively guarantee accurate usage of such functionalities, it is vital to derive the worst-case bounds of the network. In this paper, we use network calculus to carry out the worst-case bounds analysis for GTS utilization of IEEE 802.15.7 and complement our model with an in-depth performance analysis. We also propose the inclusion of an additional mechanism to improve the overall scalability and effective bandwidth utilization of the network.

2020

Tightening Up Security In Low Power Deterministic Networks

Authors
Tiberti, W; Vieira, B; Kurunathan, H; Severino, R; Tovar, E;

Publication
16th IEEE International Conference on Factory Communication Systems, WFCS 2020, Porto, Portugal, April 27-29, 2020

Abstract
The unprecedented pervasiveness of IoT systems is pushing this technology into increasingly stringent domains. Such application scenarios become even more challenging due to the demand for encompassing the interplay between safety and security. The IEEE 802.15.4 DSME MAC behavior aims at addressing such systems by providing additional deterministic, synchronous multi-channel access support. However, despite the several improvements over the previous versions of the protocol, the standard lacks a complete solution to secure communications. In this front, we propose the integration of TAKS, an hybrid cryptography scheme, over a standard DSME network. In this paper, we describe the system architecture for integrating TAKS into DSME with minimum impact to the standard, and we venture into analysing the overhead of having such security solution over application delay and throughput. After a performance analysis, we learn that it is possible to achieve a minor impact of 1% to 14% on top of the expected network delay, depending on the platform used, while still guaranteeing strong security support over the DSME network. © 2020 IEEE.

2020

WiCAR - Simulating Towards the Wireless Car

Authors
Kurunathan, H; Severino, R; Filho, EV; Tovar, E;

Publication
Computer Safety, Reliability, and Security. SAFECOMP 2020 Workshops - DECSoS 2020, DepDevOps 2020, USDAI 2020, and WAISE 2020, Lisbon, Portugal, September 15, 2020, Proceedings

Abstract
Advanced driving assistance systems (ADAS) pose stringent requirements to a system’s control and communications, in terms of timeliness and reliability, hence, wireless communications have not been seriously considered a potential candidate for such deployments. However, recent developments in these technologies are supporting unprecedented levels of reliability and predictability. This can enable a new generation of ADAS systems with increased flexibility and the possibility of retrofitting older vehicles. However, to effectively test and validate these systems, there is a need for tools that can support the simulation of these complex communication infrastructures from the control and the networking perspective. This paper introduces a co-simulation framework that enables the simulation of an ADAS application scenario in these two fronts, analyzing the relationship between different vehicle dynamics and the delay required for the system to operate safely, exploring the performance limits of different wireless network configurations. © 2020, Springer Nature Switzerland AG.

2020

Design and Implementation of Secret Key Agreement for Platoon-based Vehicular Cyber-physical Systems

Authors
Li, K; Ni, W; Emami, Y; Shen, Y; Severino, R; Pereira, D; Tovar, E;

Publication
ACM TRANSACTIONS ON CYBER-PHYSICAL SYSTEMS

Abstract
In a platoon-based vehicular cyber-physical system (PVCPS), a lead vehicle that is responsible for managing the platoon's moving directions and velocity periodically disseminates control messages to the vehicles that follow. Securing wireless transmissions of the messages between the vehicles is critical for privacy and confidentiality of the platoon's driving pattern. However, due to the broadcast nature of radio channels, the transmissions are vulnerable to eavesdropping. In this article, we propose a cooperative secret key agreement (CoopKey) scheme for encrypting/decrypting the control messages, where the vehicles in PVCPS generate a unified secret key based on the quantized fading channel randomness. Channel quantization intervals are optimized by dynamic programming to minimize the mismatch of keys. A platooning testbed is built with autonomous robotic vehicles, where a TelosB wireless node is used for onboard data processing and multi-hop dissemination. Extensive real-world experiments demonstrate that CoopKey achieves significantly low secret bit mismatch rate in a variety of settings. Moreover, the standard NIST test suite is employed to verify randomness of the generated keys, where the p-values of our CoopKey pass all the randomness tests. We also evaluate CoopKey with an extended platoon size via simulations to investigate the effect of system scalability on performance.

2020

Symphony

Authors
Kurunathan, H; Severino, R; Koubaa, A; Tovar, E;

Publication
ACM SIGBED Review

Abstract
Deterministic Synchronous Multichannel Extension (DSME) is a prominent MAC behavior first introduced in IEEE 802.15.4e. It can avail deterministic and best effort Service using its multisuperframe structure. RPL is a routing protocol for wireless networks with low power consumption and generally susceptible to packet loss. These two standards were designed independently but with the common objective to satisfy the requirements of IoT devices in terms of limited energy, reliability and determinism. A combination of these two protocols can integrate real-time QoS demanding and large-scale IoT networks. In this paper, we propose a new multi-channel, multi-timeslot scheduling algorithm called Symphony that provides QoS efficient schedules in DSME networks. In this paper we provide analytical and simulation based delay analysis for our approach against some state of the art algorithms. In this work, we show that integrating routing with DSME can improve reliability by 40% and by using Symphony, we can reduce the network delay by 10--20% against the state of the art algorithms.

Supervised
thesis

2023

Towards the simulation of cooperative perception applications by leveraging distributed sensing infrastructures

Author
MIGUEL FERREIRA OLIVEIRA

Institution
IPP-ISEP

2023

Rumo à Autenticação de Dispositivos IoMT através da Classificação de Sinais RF

Author
STÉPHANE JOAQUIM LOURENÇO MONTEIRO

Institution
IPP-ISEP

2023

Utilização da Tecnologia SDR para Autenticação de Dispositivos IoMT Baseada em RF Fingerprint

Author
FILIPE MANUEL MOURA GOMES

Institution
IPP-ISEP