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The number of IoT (Internet of things) connected devices increases rapidly. These devices have different operation systems and therefore cannot communicate with each other. As a result, the data they collected is limited within their own platform. Besides, IoT devices have very constrained resources like weak MCU (micro control unit) and limited storage. Therefore, they need direct communication method to cooperate with each other, or with the help of nearby devices with rich resources. In this paper, we propose a secure method to exchange resources (SMER) between heterogeneous IoT devices. In order to exchange resources among devices, SMER adopts a compensable mechanism for resource exchange and a series of security mechanisms to ensure the security of resource exchanges. Besides, SMER uses a smart contract based scheme to supervise resource exchange, which guarantees the safety and benefits of IoT devices. We also introduce a prototype system and make a comprehensive discussion.
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The work was kindly supported by Nanjing Yunyan Information Technology Ltd and Microsoft.
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Yu Zhang received the master degree from information and engineering university, China in 2011. He is currently working toward the PhD degree in the department of computer science and technology, Tsinghua University, China. His current research interests include Internet of things, Blockchain, and E-business.
Yuxing Han received her BS from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China and PhD from UCLA, both in Electrical Engineering. She is currently a professor in school of engineering at South China Agriculture University, China. Her research area focuses on virtual reality, multimedia communication over challenging networks, and big data analysis.
Jiangtao (Gene) Wen received the BS, MS, and PhD degrees with honors from Tsinghua University, China in 1992, 1994 and 1996 respectively, all in Electrical Engineering.
From 1996 to 1998, he was a staff research fellow at UCLA, where he conducted cutting-edge research on multimedia coding and communications. Many of his inventions there were later adopted by international standards such as H.263, MPEG, and H.264. After UCLA, he served as the Principal Scientist of PacketVideo Corp., the CTO of Morphbius Technology Inc., the Director of Video Codec Technologies of Mobilygen Corp, the Senior Director of Technology of Ortiva Wireless and consulted for Stretch Inc. Since 2009, Dr. Wen has held a Professorship at the Department of Computer Science and Technology of Tsinghua University.
Dr. Wen is a world-renowned expert in multimedia communication over hostile networks, video coding and communications. He has authored many widely referenced papers in related fields. Products deploying technologies that Dr. Wen developed are currently widely used worldwide. Dr. Wen holds over 30 patents with numerous others pending. As Senior Member of IEEE, Dr. Wen is an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions CSVT.
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Zhang, Y., Han, Y. & Wen, J. SMER: a secure method of exchanging resources in heterogeneous internet of things. Front. Comput. Sci. 13, 1198–1209 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11704-018-6524-3
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11704-018-6524-3