NEMIOT project

NEMIOT project is funded by ANR for 2024-2028 (ANR-23-CE25-0006).

While Internet of Things (IoT) is penetrating our everyday life, the interplays between IoT devices and their supporting network infrastructure are many, potentially harmful, and often yet to clarify. NEMIoT (NEtwork Methods for IoT) aims at developing new methods to increase trust in IoT devices before and after their deployment on existing network infrastructures. Although many efforts have been made in securing IoT devices with regards to hardware, software, trustworthiness, data leaking, interoperability, or privacy, relatively little has been made on the issue of the availability of existing and expected services following the introduction of a (fleet of) new IoT device(s) (e.g., massive access problem). After deployment, IoT devices may remain vulnerable and prone to abnormal behavior that needs to be quickly identified and mitigated.

NEMIoT aims at (i) designing a solid framework to model, analyze and forecast the actual behavior of IoT devices when placed in an actual IP network infrastructure as well as their impact on the hosting network infrastructure itself and (ii) developing original cross-layer solutions to finely and quickly detect and/or mitigate potential anomalies resulting from the introduction of IoT devices. To do that, NEMIoT will provide the necessary analytical methods and tools, establish a step-by-step methodology thought to be automated, and demonstrate their efficiency on testbeds with real-life IoT devices.

Using three use cases, inspired by real-life IoT scenarios and implemented with real IoT and network devices, we will showcase the benefits of using the outcomes of NEMIoT before and after deploying IoT devices on network infrastructure.