Chapter 7Secure Registration and Remote Attestation of IoT Devices Joining the Cloud: The Stack4Things Case of Study
Antonio Celesti, Maria Fazio, Francesco Longo, Giovanni Merlino and Antonio Puliafito
Department of Engineering, University of Messina, Messina, Italy
7.1 Introduction
In recent years, the Internet of Things (IoT) has emerged as one of the hottest trends in information and communication technology (ICT) thanks to the proliferation of field-deployed, dispersed, and heterogeneous sensor- and actuator-hosting platforms. Recently, with the increasing development of powerful and flexible embedded systems characterized by reprogrammable behavior and ease of use, such things are gaining a “smart” labeling to indicate this evolution. This all-encompassing and very ambitious scenario calls for adequate technologies.
Several solutions are already present in the literature mainly focusing on the lower (communication) layers and in particular on how to interconnect (among themselves and to the Internet) any network-enabled thing [1]. However, to realize the Sensing-and-Actuation-as-a-Service (SAaaS) vision [2–4], other aspects have to be also taken into account such as solutions for creating and managing a dynamic infrastructure of sensing and actuation resources. In fact, in order to effectively control devices, sensors, and things, several mechanisms are required including management, organization, and coordination. In addition, a piece of middleware devoted to the management ...