DNS Naming and Services for Secure Seamless IoT – DiNS

In this project, we aim at breaking the silos in IoT networks and
making them seamlessly interoperable with the Internet by taking
advantage of advanced DNS schemes and extensions.
We will start with the design of an overall architecture for scalable IoT naming and
resolution schemes. To address security challenges, we propose to provide strict security
guarantees for DNS names based on DNSSEC (DNS Security Extensions) and DANE
(DNS-Based Domain Authenticated Naming Extension).
The idea is to design a secure scheme for identifiers of IoT devices and
support scalable key distribution for authentication.
The project will also explore IoT discovery: how to represent the
characteristics of IoT devices in DNS names to enable rich queries on
devices and the data they generate.
Finally, we will design a name resolution scheme allowing for roaming between
multiple-tenant networks in a similar way to EduRoam.
We plan to validate this architecture initially on LoRa and extend it for
NB-IoT and future 5G MTC (Machine Type Communications) networks.