FRμIT at the IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium
25 April 2018
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Several members of the FRμIT project attended the IEEE/IFIP Network
Operations and Management Symposium in Taipei this week, helping to
organise the Workshop
on Decentralized Orchestration and Management of Distributed Heterogeneous
Things (DOMINOS), presenting on work on
Peer to Peer Secure Update for Heterogeneous Edge Devices, and giving a
demo of the Pi Stack clustering board for Raspberry Pi systems.
Herry presented our paper on
Peer to Peer Secure Update for Heterogeneous Edge Devices in the DOMINOS
workshop. This short paper explores the problem of how to securely distribute
software updates to large clusters of edge devices, where those edge devices
are behind NATs and firewalls, or in other challenged network environments.
Traditional network management systems assume direct connectivity to the
devices being managed, either because they're in the same data centre network
or because the edge firewall/NAT is configured to allow access from the
management host. As edge compute nodes and IoT devices are increasingly used
in residential networks such access becomes difficult, since there is no
systems administration to configure such access. Software update and
management systems must therefore grow the ability to work transparently,
in a peer-to-peer manner, in challenged networks. Our paper presents some
initial prototype work in this direction.
In addition, we demonstrated the latest version of the
Pi Stack board,
developed by the University of Southampton, that can supply power and
remote power control to clusters of Raspberry Pi hosts. This was shown
working with our peer-to-peer software update management system.