cOOKie, a Tool for Developing RF Communication Systems for the Internet of Things

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dc.contributor.authorMiller, Kevin
dc.contributor.authorLeberknight, Chris
dc.date.accessioned2019-01-03T00:58:06Z
dc.date.available2019-01-03T00:58:06Z
dc.date.issued2019-01-08
dc.description.abstractThere is a need for high-efficiency short-range wireless communications to connect IoT devices that have low to medium security requirements. A hardware/software tool was developed to help IoT product developers quickly and easily develop radio frequency (RF) communication systems for IoT devices where previously this was a manual, one-off process. The tool uses Software Defined Radio (SDR) and focuses on On-Off-Keying (OOK) modulation. It can be used by persons with limited knowledge of RF to analyze existing devices and capture its characteristics, which can be used to create and transmit new messages, in effect spoofing it. New device definitions can be implemented in low-cost off-the-shelf hardware for production. OOK has been found to be very efficient at binary RF communications because the transmitter is only powered when a “1” is being transmitted. This efficiency translates into a battery life of up to one year. Implementations of this system could include arrays of sensors that periodically transmit data to a traditionally-powered Internet-connected receiver. Another possible use of this system could be low-cost small transmitters to track animal movements in a defined area. Receivers placed around the area could record the time and signal strength of the transmissions. Software would be used to analyze the data and plot the animal’s movements. Because the RF transmissions have a specific range, the opportunity to intercept, modify or spoof communications is highly variable. For sensitive data, rolling codes and/or public/private key encryption could be used for encoding before modulating with OOK.
dc.format.extent6 pages
dc.identifier.doi10.24251/HICSS.2019.866
dc.identifier.isbn978-0-9981331-2-6
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10125/60158
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofProceedings of the 52nd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subjectCyber-Assurance for the Internet of Things, Software-Defined Networks and Fog Computing Architectures
dc.subjectSoftware Technology
dc.subjectInternet of Things
dc.subjectSecurity
dc.subjectSoftware Defined Radio
dc.subjectSystem Design
dc.titlecOOKie, a Tool for Developing RF Communication Systems for the Internet of Things
dc.typeConference Paper
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