Mauro Biagi (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy); Valeria Loscrí (Inria Lille-Nord Europe, France)
Abstract:
In the last years there has been an accelerated impulsion on wireless technology, making the wireless landscape richer and more complex. There are a plethora of co-existing wireless communication technologies, and the Internet of Things (IoT) is evolving and encompassing not only connected objects, but also processes, data and people. In this complex systems, it is paramount to guarantee the reliability as well as security, since our daily life is related to services and applications provided by such a kind of systems. Objectives: The main objectives of this tutorial consist in providing a presentation of the main wireless communication technologies and highlight their unique features and how they make the communication systems resilient and robust. On the other hand, intelligence is more and more characterising modern wireless communication architectures, with a massive use of Machine Learning (ML) approaches to make these systems adaptive, also in a high dynamic environment and reducing at minimum the human intervention. The main point is that intelligence can be also used by potential offender, to create new and more efficient cyber attacks or improve existing ones. in this tutorial we aim to reveal this double nature of ML approaches and we will provide some concrete examples in the IoT-EDGE context. Audience: Target audience is researchers on IoT and cyber security in the context of IoT, as well as industry people relying on Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) based solutions.
Short bios:
Mauro BIAGI, (Senior Member, IEEE) received the Laurea degree in communication engineering and the Ph.D. degree in information and communication theory from the Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy, in 2001 and 2005, respectively. Since 2006, he has been working as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Information, Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering, Sapienza University of Rome, where he has been an Associate Professor, since 2015. In 2010, he was a Visiting Assistant Professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada. He is responsible for the international cooperation with colleagues in different countries and his research activities are in the field of visible light communications in the RGB-Comm Laboratory where he advises Ph.D. students and postdocs leading projects in the area of optical wireless. He is also responsible for the research activities in the field of underwater communications in the AMOUR-AQUALaboratory for activities involving both acoustic and optical communications. He is the author of more than 150 published works in the field of communication and signal processing. His research interests include MIMO systems, the Internet of Things, underwater communications, smart grids, and optical wireless systems and on this latter topic, he organized several IEEE workshops and tracks in conferences. He is currently a member of the IEEE Communications Society Technical Committee on Power Line Communications, Cybersecurity, and the IEEE Communications Society Transmission Access on Optical Systems, where he has been serving as a Secretary, since 2021. He served as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Photonics Technology Letter and a Guest Editor for the IEEE Journal of Selected Areas in Communications for a Special Issue entitled Localisation, Communication and Networking with VLC, 2018. Since 2021, he has been an Associate Editor of the IEEE/Optica Journal of Lightwave Technology.
Valeria LOSCRI, (Senior Member, IEEE) is a research scientist at Inria Center of University of Lille. She received the Laurea degree in Computer Science Engineering and the Ph.D. degree in Computer Science and Electrical Systems from the University of Calabria, Italy, in 2003 and 2007, respectively. She obtained her Habilitation to supervise research (HDR) in 2018. Her main research interests are on Cybersecurity and resilience of wireless networks, resources allocation and anomaly detection in wireless systems, Unconventional Wireless Communication paradigms as Visible Light Communication, Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface (RIM). She authored more than 160 works in the field of attacks and countermeasures on wireless communication systems and unconventional wireless communications. She is in the editorial board of IEEE Communications Survey and Tutorials (IEEE COMST), IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (IEEE TIFS), Elsevier ComNet, ComCom. She is TPC member of several international conferences, as IEEE ESORICS, Infocom, PerCom, ICC, Globecom. She served as TPC chair and symposium chairs for Globecom 2021, 2023, EWSN 2023. She is (has been) member of several European Project as Horizon Europe MLSysOps, CyberSANE and national, such as DEPOSIA. She has been nominated to the 2021 Women Stars in Computer Networking and Communications Communications, by the IEEE Communication Society. Since 2019 she is Scientific Delegate for the International Relations for Inria Lille.