Centre for Wireless Communications

SecureConnect: Secure Connectivity of Future Cyber-Physical Systems

Project description

SECURE Connect project will solve the Industrial Internet and future Cyber Physical System challenges by achieving following objectives:

  • Assessment of Security strengths and weaknesses in current cyber-physical communication systems and derivation of potential points for improvement especially by using SDN and NFV concepts
  • Identification of possible security attacks future cyber-physical networks and how they can be detected and prevented.
  • Specify achievable and relevant scenarios and use-cases for coexistence, cooperation and integration of SDN and NFV based techniques and cloud-service based solutions within cyber-physical systems, for network security.
  • Research on economically viable security techniques and protocols for cyber-physical networks and Customization of identified security techniques and protocols to use in future cyber-physical networks.
  • Design Secure and scalable communication architecture for future cyber-physical networks based on emerging SDN and NFV technologies

Project coordinator

University of Oulu

Project results

Articles in journals

  • I. Ahmad, S. Shahabuddin, T. Kumar, J. Okwuibe, A. Gurtov and M. Ylianttila, "Security for 5G and Beyond," in IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, 2019. (Impact factor 22.97, JuFo 2)
  • Porambage, J. Okwuibe, M. Liyanage, M. Ylianttila, T. Taleb, "Survey on Multi-Access Edge Computing for Internet of Things Realization", to appear in the IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, 2018. (Impact factor 22.97, JuFo 2)
  • I. Ahmad, T. Kumar, J. Okwuibe, M. Liyanage, M. Ylianttila, A. Gurtov, "Overview of 5G Security Challenges and Solutions", IEEE Communications Standards Magazine, Vol.2, Issue 1, pp. 36-43, 2018. (JuFo 1)
  • M. Liyanage, I. Ahmed, J. Okwuibe, M. Ylianttila, H. Kabir, J. Santos, R. Kantola, O. Perez, M. Itzazelaia, E. Montes de Oca, "Enhancing Security of Future Software Defined Mobile Networks", IEEE Access, Vol. 5, pp. 9422-9438, 2017. (Impact factor 3.244, JuFo 2)
  • M. Liyanage, A, Braeken, A. Jurcut, M. Ylianttila, A. Gurtov, "Secure Communication Channel Architecture for Software Defined Mobile Networks", Elsevier Computer Networks, Vol. 114, pp. 32-50, 2017. (Impact factor 2.516, JuFo 2)

Articles in conference proceedings

  • T. Hewa, A. Braeken, M. Ylianttila, M. Liyanage, "Blockchain-based Automated Certificate Revocation for 5G IoT ", to appear in IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) 2020, Dublin, Ireland, June 2020
  • T. Hewa, G. Gur, A. Kalla, A. Braeken, M. Ylianttila, M. Liyanage, "The Role of Blockchain in 6G: Challenges, Opportunities and Research Directions ", to appear in 6G Wireless Summit 2020, Levi, Finland, March 2020
  • T. Hewa, A. Kalla, A. Nag, M. Ylianttila, M. Liyanage, "Blockchain for 5G and IoT: Opportunities and Challenges ", to be appear in The 8th IEEE International Conference on Communications and Networking ( IEEE ComNet'2020), Hammamet, Tunisia, March 2020
  • P. Porambage, Y. Miche, A. Kalliola, M. Liyanage, M. Ylianttila, "Secure Keying Scheme for Network Slicing in 5G Architecture", proceedings of IEEE CSCN, Granada, Spain, October 2019.
  • A. Rajakaruna, P. Porambage, A. Manzoor, M. Liyanage, A. Gurtov, M. Ylianttila, "Enabling End-to-End Secure Connectivity for Low-Power IoT Devices with UAVs", 2nd Workshop on Intelligent Computing and Caching at the Network Edge at IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), April 2019.
  • P. Porambage, A. Manzoor, M. Liyanage, A. Gurtov, M. Ylianttila, "Managing Mobile Relays for Secure E2E Connectivity of Low-Power IoT Devices" 16th IEEE Annual Consumer Communications & Networking Conference (CCNC), 2019.
  • M. Liyanage, J. Salo, A. Braeken, T. Kumar, S. Seneviratne, M. Ylianttila, "5G Privacy: Scenarios and Solutions", Accepted in 2018 IEEE 5G World Forum (5GWF), California, USA, July 2018.
  • M. Liyanage, M. Dananjaya, J. Okwuibe, M. Ylianttila, "SDN based Operator Assisted Offloading Platform for Multi-Controller 5G Networks" , in 23th IEEE International Symposium on Local and Metropolitan Area Networks (LANMAN), Osaka, Japan, June 2017
  • M. Liyanage, M. Ylianttila, A. Gurtov, "Software Defined VPLS Architectures: Opportunities and Challenges", in IEEE 28th Annual International Symposium on Personal, Indoor, and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC 2017), Montreal, Canada , October 2017
  • M. Liyanage, J. Okwuibe, I. Ahmed, M. Ylianttila, O. Pérez, M. Itzazelaia, E. de Oca, "Software Defined Monitoring (SDM) for 5G Mobile Backhual Networks", in 23th IEEE International Symposium on Local and Metropolitan Area Networks (LANMAN), Osaka, Japan, June 2017
  • I. Ahmad, S. Namal, M. Ylianttila and A. Gurtov, "Towards software defined cognitive networking," New Technologies, Mobility and Security (NTMS), 2015 7th International Conference on, Paris, 2015, pp. 1-5. doi: 10.1109/NTMS.2015.7266528

Doctoral theses:

Partners

Consortium 

  • PI Prof. Mika Ylianttila, University of Oulu
  • PI Prof. Tuomas Aura, Aalto University

International collaborators

  • Prof. Andrei Gurtov, Linköping University

Research groups

  • CWC-NS Networks and Systems
  • CWC-Verkot ja Järjestelmät

Keywords

Technology
Wireless communications and communications technology
software defined networking
wireless communications technology and systems
Wireless communications applications
cybersecurity

People

Mika Ylianttila

Associate professor (tenure track)
Madhusanka Liyanage

Madhusanka Liyanage

Adjunct Professor - Docent
Tharaka Hewa

Tharaka Mawanane Hewa