As modern network infrastructures can look quite different depending on their intended purpose and deployment site, the capability to test solutions for them is needed. One of the things enabling just that is to build a simulated environment, or testbed, to investigate what happens in the network when testing different scenarios on them.
MSc (Tech) Antti Kolehmainen studied the viability of testbed use focusing on security management in network infrastructures involving IoT and edge computing. As the network environments in the testbeds used for experimentation were built specifically for certain use scenario, such as seafaring vessel to shore communication and typical home network with standard WiFi routers, they provided good deal of width to experiment on the subject.
The experiments ranged from using WiFI router power consumption to detect attacks on the network to running machine learning and software-defined networking (SDN) on a more corporate style network to automate the security response based on detected packets. In addition, some testbeds used link emulator to have some of the included devices pretend to be behind different uplinks, such as satellite or 4G.
Public defence on Thursday 19 December
The doctoral dissertation of MSc (Tech) Antti Kolehmainen in the field of Computer Science titled Edge Infrastructure Testbeds as Tools for Understanding Security Management in IoT will be publicly examined at the Faculty of Information Technology and Communication Sciences at Tampere University at 12 o’clock on Thursday 19.12.2024 at Hervanta campus, Tietotalo, auditorium TB109 (Korkeakoulunkatu 1, Tampere). The Opponent will be Associate Professor Carol Fung of Concordia University, Canada. The Custos will be Associate Professor David Hästbacka of Faculty of Information Technology and Communication Sciences.
The doctoral dissertation is available online.
The public defence can be followed via remote connection.