Private Resource Sharing in Distributed Embedded Systems

Contributor(s)

Micah Murray

Session

Surveillance and Systems of Marginalization

Abstract

From IoT devices to low power sensors, as embedded systems become ubiquitous, it is increasingly important to think about how to effectively run multiple applications on these systems. As these devices are often limited in their on-board resources (e.g. power, memory, or space), it is challenging and sometimes infeasible for a single device to meet every application's resource needs at any one time. Therefore, we pose the following question: Can applications securely and privately share resources across a network of embedded devices? Instead of forcing applications to wait arbitrarily long to share limited on-board resources, applications should be able to use resources from any participating device among a network of connected devices. However, achieving this ideal scenario is challenging since applications might not want their queries to be traced back to them nor want the contents of their data to be known to the applications or operating systems on external devices.