Intelligent Security Management and Control in the IoT

1Multicriteria Selection of Transmission Parameters in the IoT

Sinda BOUSSEN¹, Mohamed-Aymen CHALOUF² and Francine KRIEF³

¹ Mediatron, University of Carthage, Tunis, Tunisia

² IRISA, University of Rennes 1, Lannion, France

³ LaBRI, Bordeaux INP, Talence, France

1.1. Introduction

Cognitive radio networks (CRN) and the Internet of Things (IoT) are concepts that are taking on more and more importance in modern communication systems. The IoT extends connectivity to the real world (Atzori et al. 2010; Perera et al. 2014, 2015; Xu et al. 2014; Al-Fuqaha et al. 2015), by allowing an object (a sensor, smartphone, car, etc.) to interact with the existing internet infrastructure, to communicate with other objects and to collect and exchange data. An object can have several interfaces and so detect different access networks. When several access networks are available, it will be necessary to make a decision about selecting the access network best adapted to the current situation. However, with the increase in the number of connected objects, the spectrum is becoming a precious resource, one threatened with scarcity. Faced with this problem, we can imagine objects with cognitive capacities (Vlacheas et al. 2013). This will make it possible to optimize use of unoccupied radio frequencies while still minimizing interferences with priority users. In an intelligent radio environment (Haykin 2005; Akyildiz et al. 2006), we distinguish two types of users: priority users, called primary users, ...