Nokia Bell Labs, 1 route de Villejust, 91620 Nozay, France.
Nokia Bell Labs, Copernicuslaan 50, 2018 Antwerp, Belgium.
Sensors (Basel). 2018 Sep 7;18(9):2986. doi: 10.3390/s18092986.
Cyber-Physical Systems (CPSs) are complex systems comprising computation, physical, and networking assets. Used in various domains such as manufacturing, agriculture, vehicles, etc., they blend the control of the virtual and physical worlds. Smart homes are a peculiar type of CPS where the local networking fundamentals have seen little evolution in the past decades, while the context in which home networks operate has drastically evolved. With the advent of the Internet of Things (IoT), the number and diversity of devices connected to our home networks are exploding. Some of those devices are poorly secured and put users' data privacy and security at risk. At the same time, administrating a home network has remained a tedious chore, requiring skills from un-savvy users. We present Future Spaces, an end-to-end hardware-software prototype providing fine-grained control over IoT connectivity to enable easy and secure management of smart homes. Relying on Software-Defined Networking-enabled home gateways and the virtualization of network functions in the cloud, we achieve advanced networking security and automation through the definition of isolated, usage-oriented slices. This disrupts how users discover, control and share their connected assets across multiple domains, smoothly adapting to various usage contexts.
网络物理系统（CPSs）是包含计算、物理和网络资产的复杂系统。它们应用于制造业、农业、车辆等各个领域，融合了虚拟和物理世界的控制。智能家居是一种特殊类型的 CPS，在过去几十年中，本地网络基础几乎没有发展，而家庭网络运行的环境却发生了巨大的变化。随着物联网（IoT）的出现，连接到我们家庭网络的设备的数量和种类正在爆炸式增长。其中一些设备安全性较差，使用户的数据隐私和安全面临风险。同时，管理家庭网络仍然是一项繁琐的工作，需要非专业用户具备一定的技能。我们提出了 Future Spaces，这是一个端到端的软硬件原型，提供对物联网连接的细粒度控制，以实现智能家居的轻松和安全管理。通过在家庭网关中启用软件定义网络以及在云中实现网络功能的虚拟化，我们通过定义隔离的、面向使用的切片来实现高级网络安全和自动化。这改变了用户在多个领域发现、控制和共享其连接资产的方式，能够平滑适应各种使用场景。
