Showing papers by "Jorge Munilla published in 2020"
TL;DR: A novel 3-PAKE protocol for HWSN applications, with two extensions for additional security features, that is provably secure, efficient and flexible is proposed.
20 citations
TL;DR: This proposal leverages the separation between USIM and mobile equipment within the user equipment to implement a 5G compliant protocol where tags accomplish the authentication part, as 5G subscribers, while readers assume the mobile equipment role, carrying out the 5G communication and most of the resource consuming tasks.
Abstract: The term “Internet of Things” was originally coined when radio frequency identification (RFID) technology was being developed to refer to applications where RFID tagged objects and sensors enabled computers to achieve effective situational awareness without human intervention. Currently, this term encompasses a myriad of medium/small devices connected to the Internet. On the other hand, 5G is a key enabling technology that will support next generation wireless communications. Moreover, 5G aims to realize the “Internet of Everything”. Surprisingly, despite the expected relationship between these two technologies, RFID tags have not been properly integrated into 4G and it is not clear if this will change in 5G. RFID is considered as a parallel technology where, at best, it has connection to the core network using back-end servers as gateways between the two technologies. With the aim of overcoming this problem, this paper proposes a 5G compliant RFID protocol that allows RFID tags to act as fully fledged 5G subscribers while taking into account the main characteristics of RFID systems. This proposal leverages the separation between USIM and mobile equipment within the user equipment to implement a 5G compliant protocol where tags accomplish the authentication part, as 5G subscribers, while readers assume the mobile equipment role, carrying out the 5G communication and most of the resource consuming tasks.
6 citations
28 Sep 2020
TL;DR: The final achievements of an Education project granted by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Commission, focused in particular on three fields that are considered enablers for Smart Cities (SCs): Telecommunications and Computer Networks, IT Security, and Smart Grids (SGs), are presented.
Abstract: This paper presents the final achievements of an Education project granted by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Commission (EC), focused in particular on three fields that are considered enablers for Smart Cities (SCs): Telecommunications and Computer Networks, IT Security, and Smart Grids (SGs). Policy makers and stakeholders in Palestine (PS) have made the decision to move towards a knowledge-based economy with the aim of providing a rapid but sustainable economic growth. Thanks to the EU funding, it was possible to transfer know-how from European experts to PS and to enhance the capacity building and skills of professors, students, and industry employees. Although the Covid-19 pandemic has compelled to delay some activities related to Academia-Industry cooperation, like the students’ stages at European universities and enterprises, the academic activities have been developed as planned, just accelerating the adaptation of the didactic material to remote learning, phase that was already included in the initial project plan. The paper analyzes the structure and content of the developed didactic material, and the corresponding students’ feedback after the first year of courses delivery.