Teaching Smartphones new IoT Protocols

Speaker/Bio

Johannes Becker is a PhD student studying network security and software defined radio with Professor David Starobinski at Boston University.

Abstract

The Internet of Things (IoT) enables an unprecedented number of devices to communicate and interact over (typically) wireless protocols. The dominant IoT communication protocols optimize for power consumption and low computational overhead to account for smaller and smaller battery powered devices. Smartphones do not “speak” these protocols, however, they have started to become powerful enough to run software defined radio (SDR) applications which can implement the required protocols in software on the fly to directly talk to IoT devices. The presented paper proposes an SDR architecture for smartphones and demonstrates a proof-of-concept that enables communication with multiple IoT devices concurrently.

Reference

• Park, Y., Kuk, S., Kang, I. & Kim, H. (2017). Overcoming IoT Language Barriers Using Smartphone SDRs. IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 16 (3), 816–828. doi:10.1109/TMC.2016.2570749