Funded Ph.D. thesis – Call for Applications
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Security Policies for IoT Networks

Research Director : Pr Alban Gabillon
Tel : (+689) 40 803 880
email : [email protected]
Co-Research Director: Dr. Emmanuel Bruno Tel : (+33) 4 94 14 20 33 email :
[email protected]

Place : Laboratoire GePaSud, Bâtiment OGT, Université de la Polynésie
Française, Tahiti.

The recruited student will devise IoT network architectures that can support
the implementation of various security policies. Dynamic and contextual
security policies including permissions, prohibitions and obligations should
be supported. Knowing that IoT networks can be very large, proposed
solutions should be scalable. This would require to distribute the security
policy evaluation among the different nodes of the network. Edge or fog
computing approaches could be used for that purpose. This would also require
to synchronize the security policy at every node of the network by using
blockchain algorithms or other replication algorithms.
Supported IoT networks could include LPWAN (Low-Power Wide-Area Network)
networks like LoRa, Sigfox or Wi-Fi 802.11ah.
The thesis will mainly be hosted at the GePaSud Laboratory of the University
of French Polynesia in Tahiti and partly at the university of Toulon in
France.

Student Profile : The applicant should hold a MSc in Computer Science and
have skills in computer security, network and distributed computing.

Keywords : Computer security, network, security policy, event
synchronization, replication protocol.

Funding : Doctoral contract. 181 977 XPF (1525 euros) net per month

Interested students should send a letter of application and a complete
resume via email Pre-selected students will have to follow Interviews via
skype