CS 3720 Advanced Topics on Internet of Things

Fall 2019

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Tentative schedule — please check it regularly.

Schedule

#	Date	Topic	Presenter
1.	Aug 27	Introduction + Course Logistics	Stephen
2.	Aug 29	Edge computing and IoT	Stephen
3.	Sep 03	Are FPGAs Suitable for Edge Computing?	Stephen
4.	Sep 05	Distributing Deep Neural Networks with Containerized Partitions at the Edge	Zhendong Wang
5.	Sep 10	ApproxIoT: Approximate Analytics for Edge Computing	Stephen
6.	Sep 12	Project Proposal Due. Due: Sep 16. Fear and Logging in the Internet of Things	Ajesh
7.	Sep 17	Exploring the Use of Synthetic Gradients for Distributed Deep Learning across Cloud and Edge Resources	Zhendong Wang
8.	Sep 19	ContexIoT: Towards Providing Contextual Integrityto Appified IoT Platforms	Henrique
9.	Sep 24	Kitsune: An Ensemble of Autoencoders for Online Network Intrusion Detection	Kuheli
10.	Sep 26	Rethinking Access Control and Authentication for the Home Internet of Things (IoT)	Henrique
12.	Oct 1	FlowFence: Practical Data Protection for Emerging IoT Application Frameworks.	Ziyi
11.	Oct 3	SkyCore: Moving Core to the Edge for Untethered and Reliable UAV-based LTE Networks	Ismael
-	Oct 8	Project time - No class
-	Oct 10	Project time - No class
13.	Oct 15	Checkpoint: Progress Report Presentations
14.	Oct 17	Catch It If You Can: Real-Time Network AnomalyDetection With Low False Alarm Rates (Short paper) An Empirical Study on Network AnomalyDetection using Convolutional Neural Network (Short paper)	Kuheli
15.	Oct 22	Online Energy Management in IoT Applications	Ismael
16.	Oct 24	N-BaIoT—Network-Based Detection of IoT Botnet Attacks Using Deep Autoencoders	Kuheli
17.	Oct 29	A Privacy-Preserving Deep Learning Approach for Face Recognition with Edge Computing	Henrique
18.	Oct 31	zkLedger: Privacy-Preserving Auditing for Distributed Ledgers	Ziyi
19.	Nov 5	Vegvisir: A Partition-Tolerant Blockchain for the Internet-of-Things	Meng
20.	Nov 7	Private Blockchain Network for IoT Device Firmware Integrity Verification and Update	Ajesh
21.	Nov 12	Rebalancing bike sharing systems: A multi-source data smart optimization. SIGKDD. 2016.	Meng
22.	Nov 14	Peer-to-Peer Energy Sharing: Effective Cost-Sharing Mechanisms and Social Efficiency	Ismael
23.	Nov 19	IoT Passport: A Blockchain-Based Trust Framework for Collaborative Internet-of-Things	Ajesh
24.	Nov 21	FarmBeats: An IoT Platform for Data-Driven Agriculture.	Ziyi
-	Nov 26	Thanksgiving Recess
-	Nov 28	Thanksgiving Recess
25.	Dec 3	Health Monitoring and Management Using Internet-of-Things (IoT) Sensing with Cloud-Based Processing: Opportunities and Challenges	Zhendong Wang
26.	Dec 5	Crowd-AI Camera Sensing in the Real World.	Meng
27.	Dec 10	Final Project Presentations
28.	Dec 12	Final Project Presentations

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Bibliography

Includes all reading materials and related papers. I will continue to update this list as the semester progresses.

General

• Gubbi et al. IoT: A Vision, Architectural Elements, and Future Directions

IoT Security and Privacy

• Jia et al. ContexIoT: Towards Providing Contextual Integrity to Appified IoT Platforms. NDSS. 2017
• Fernandes, Earlence, et al. FlowFence: Practical Data Protection for Emerging IoT Application Frameworks. USENIX Security. 2016.
• He, Weijia et al. Rethinking Access Control and Authentication for the Home Internet of Things (IoT). USENIX Security. 2018
• Mao, Yunlong et al. A Privacy-Preserving Deep Learning Approach for Face Recognition with Edge Computing.. HotEdge. 2018
• Wang et al. Fear and Logging in the Internet of Things.. NDSS. 2018.

Cloud/Edge and IoT

• Bonomi, Flavio, et al. Fog computing: A platform for internet of things and analytics." Big data and internet of things: A roadmap for smart environments. Springer. 2014.
• Jonas, Eric et al. Occupy the Cloud: Distributed Computing for the 99%. SoCC. 2017
• Melara et al. Pyronia: Redesigning Least Privilege and Isolation for the Age of IoT.
• Are FPGAs Suitable for Edge Computing?. HotEdge. 2018
• Alipourfard, Omid et al. CherryPick: Adaptively Unearthing the Best Cloud Configurations for BigData Analytics. NSDI 2017
• Wen et al.ApproxIoT: Approximate Analytics for Edge Computing. ICDCS 2018.
• Obfuscation At-Source: Privacy in Context-Aware Mobile Crowd-Sourcing.

ML and IoT

• FastDeepIoT: Towards Understanding and Optimizing Neural Network Execution Time on Mobile and Embedded Device. Sensys 2018.
• Yao et al. ApDeepSense: Deep Learning Uncertainty Estimation Without the Pain for IoT Applications.. ICDCS 2018.
• Yao et al. DeepIoT: Compressing Deep Neural Network Structures for Sensing Systems with a Compressor-Critic Framework . Sensys. 2017
• SenseGAN: Enabling Deep Learning for Internet of Things with a Semi-Supervised Framework

Applications and IoT

• Vasisht et al.FarmBeats: An IoT Platform for Data-Driven Agriculture. NSDI 2017.
• Rebalancing bike sharing systems: A multi-source data smart optimization. SIGKDD. 2016.
• Dynamic cluster-based over-demand prediction in bike sharing systems. UbiComp. 2016
• BikeGPS: Accurate Localization of Shared Bikes in Street Canyons via Low-Level GPS Cooperation . Mobisys 2018.
• Crowd-AI Camera Sensing in the Real World.
• RADAR: Road Obstacle Identification for Disaster Response Leveraging Multi-Source Urban Data
• Privacy-preserving Image Processing with Binocular Thermal Cameras
• Enabling Public Cameras to Talk to the Public
• Inferring Mobility Relationship via Graph Embedding

Blockchain and IoT

• Narula et al. zkLedger: Privacy-Preserving Auditing for Distributed Ledgers . NSDI 2018.
• Vegvisir: A Partition-Tolerant Blockchain for the Internet-of-Things.ICDCS. 2018