Securing The Internet of Mobile Things in the World of 5G and Beyond

The past decade has witnessed a major paradigm shift in computing with the developments in networking and mobile computing technologies, giving rise to an all-connected world with the Internet of Things (IoT). The Internet of Mobile Things (IoMT), which involves the additional dimension of mobility, has made possible use cases including autonomous vehicles, networks of unmanned aerial vehicles, and smart transportation systems, among many others. Achieving security, reliability and energy-efficiency in the highly mobile context of IoMT under strict QoS requirements faces many challenges that require development of new communication architectures. In this talk we will discuss the roles of 5G and network virtualization technologies including software-defined networking and network slicing in making a high speed, reliable and secure IoMT possible. The security challenges faced specifically due to the mobile nature of things in IoMT will be discussed through case studies and next generation solution architectures will be elaborated on.

Pelin Angin

Dr. Pelin Angin is an Assistant Professor of Computer Engineering in Middle East Technical University, Turkey. She got her B.S. degree in Computer Engineering at Bilkent University and Ph.D. degree in Computer Science at Purdue University. Dr. Angin worked as a Visiting Assistant Professor at Purdue University in the 2014-2015 academic year, and then as a Postdoctoral Research Associate until December 2016. Her research interests lie in the fields of mobile-cloud computing, IoT security, wireless networks and blockchain. She is affiliated with the Systems Security Research Laboratory (S2RL) and the Wireless Systems, Networks and Cybersecurity Research Laboratory at METU. Her research in security and computer networks has been published in various prominent journals including IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing and Journal of Network and Computer Applications among others. She serves on the editorial boards of various IoT and wireless communications journals and on the program committees of top-tier conferences including VLDB, SIGMOD, IEEE ICIOT etc.