Herry Herry, Emily Band, Colin Perkins, and Jeremy Singer
Proceedings of the IEEE/IFIP International Workshop on Decentralized Orchestration and Management of Distributed Heterogeneous Things (DOMINOS),
Taipei, Taiwan,
April 2018.
DOI:10.1109/NOMS.2018.8406323
We consider the problem of securely distributing software updates to
large scale clusters of heterogeneous edge compute nodes. Such nodes are
needed to support the Internet of Things and low-latency edge compute
scenarios, but are difficult to manage and update because they exist at the
edge of the network behind NATs and firewalls that limit connectivity, or
because they are mobile and have intermittent network access. We present a
prototype secure update architecture for these devices that uses the
combination of peer-to-peer protocols and automated NAT traversal
techniques. This demonstrates that edge devices can be managed in an
environment subject to partial or intermittent network connectivity, where
there is not necessarily direct access from a management node to the
devices being updated.
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