Leveraging Internet of Things within the military network environment — Challenges and solutions

Abstract

The widespread adoption of IoT technologies will significantly affect many aspects of military operations. A growing number of battlefield assets will soon become networked entities, thanks to capillary and high density personal and environment sensors systems. The accurate and fine-grained information gathered could significantly benefit military intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance operations, facilitate automated supply chain logistics, and facilitate urban operations in mega-city environments. To achieve these goals, research has to address several issues, such as reconciling the differences between commercial IoT architectural patterns and military network architectures, interoperability between different IoT systems, data processing and information management, and realization of resource-efficient IoT middleware solutions. The resource constrained tactical networking environment makes this research agenda particularly challenging but also pressing in terms of the need for novel middleware solutions.

Dynamic Psychological Game Theory for Secure Internet of Battlefield Things (IoBT) Systems

“…The existing literature has studied a number of problems related to the security of the IoBT [2]- [5]. In [2], the commu-This research was sponsored in part by the U.S. National Science Foundation under Grant CNS-1446621 and, in part, by the Army Research Laboratory and was accomplished under Grant Number W911NF-17-1-0021. The views and conclusions contained in this document are those of the authors and should not be interpreted as representing the official policies, either expressed or implied, of the Army Research Laboratory or the U.S. Government.…”

“…The work in [5] develops a mean-field game approach to analyze the spread of misinformation in an adversarial IoBT. Despite the promising results, these existing works [2]- [4] mostly rely on static constructs and do not consider the influence of the human players' psychology and potential bounded rationality when making decisions or choosing strategies within an IoBT setting. Indeed, the behavioral aspect of human decision making processes, leading agents to deviate from the fully rational objective behavior in an IoBT, has a direct impact on the security of the IoBT network.…”

“…Emerging Internet of Things (IoT) technologies have led to significant changes in how autonomous systems are managed [1]. In a military environment, IoT technologies provide new ways for managing and operating a battlefield by interconnecting combat equipment, soldier devices, and other battlefield resources [2]. This integration of the IoT with military networks is referred to as the Internet of Battlefield Things (IoBT) [1].…”

A Multiclass Mean-Field Game for Thwarting Misinformation Spread in the Internet of Battlefield Things

“…We denote by C the set of all classes. The proportion m l ik of IoBT nodes of class (i, k) in each state l evolves according to (2)- (5).…”

“…A preliminary version of this work [1] was submitted for conference publication. arXiv:1802.06887v1 [cs.GT] 23 Jan 2018 thus forming the so-called the Internet of battlefield Things (IoBT) [5]. However, due to its adversarial nature, the IoBT is prone to a multitude of security attacks.…”