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Towards Transparency of IoT Message Brokers

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Provenance and Annotation of Data and Processes (IPAW 2018)

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Abstract

In this paper we propose an ontological model for documenting provenance of MQTT message brokers to enhance the transparency of interactions between IoT agents.

The work described here was funded by the award made by the RCUK Digital Economy programme to the University of Aberdeen (EP/N028074/1) and City, University of London (EP/N028155/1).

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Notes

  1. 1.

    https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=celex%3A32016R0679.

  2. 2.

    https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/business-center/privacy-and-security/u.s.-eu-safe-harbor-framework.

  3. 3.

    http://docs.oasis-open.org/mqtt/mqtt/v3.1.1/os/mqtt-v3.1.1-os.html.

  4. 4.

    MQTT is a publish/subscribe messaging transport protocol for a client-server communication. The protocol specifies a set of control packets that govern the communication between the client and the message broker residing on a server.

  5. 5.

    http://w3id.org/mqtt-plan.

  6. 6.

    https://www.w3.org/TR/prov-o/.

  7. 7.

    Subclasses of prov:Entity and prov:Activity.

  8. 8.

    MQTT-PLAN concepts are described with the prefix m-plan.

  9. 9.

    The client sending a control packet triggering this action should be registered to receive messages published under the requested topics.

  10. 10.

    A message specified in the control packet triggering this action should be forwarded to clients subscribed to the topic under which it was published.

  11. 11.

    This action should close the connection between a client and a broker.

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  1. Computing Science, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, AB24 5UA, UK

    Milan Markovic, David Corsar & Peter Edwards

  2. School of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences, City, University of London, London, EC1V 0HB, UK

    Waqar Asif & Muttukrishnan Rajarajan

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Markovic, M., Corsar, D., Asif, W., Edwards, P., Rajarajan, M. (2018). Towards Transparency of IoT Message Brokers. In: Belhajjame, K., Gehani, A., Alper, P. (eds) Provenance and Annotation of Data and Processes. IPAW 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11017. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98379-0_19

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