IoT Multicast Cybersecurity Messaging for Bandwidth-Limited Updates
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current IoT systems face challenges in managing the exponential growth of IoT devices, leading to bandwidth constraints and increased demand for point-to-point communications, which strain network resources and require significant bandwidth for device updates and data transmission.
Innovation Solution
The Diana system employs a passive data distribution technology using broadcast/multicast bearer services to deliver user data streams without creating stateful relationships, ensuring device privacy and security through cloaked communication, utilizing Diana Instruments for quality of service monitoring and anomaly detection.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If point-to-point communication is used for each IoT device, then device-specific data transmission is achieved, but network bandwidth and resources are strained due to exponential device growth
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple point-to-point communication channels into a single multicast channel. Instead of sending separate data streams to each IoT device individually, the system combines them into one consolidated multicast stream that can be received by multiple devices simultaneously, thereby reducing network bandwidth consumption while maintaining device-specific data transmission capabilities
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements a universal multicast communication mechanism that serves multiple IoT devices simultaneously through a single channel. This multi-functional approach allows the same communication infrastructure to handle data transmission to numerous devices without requiring separate dedicated channels for each device, thus optimizing network resource utilization
2Ease of operation
If traditional communication protocols are used for IoT devices, then device identification and addressing is straightforward, but device privacy and security are compromised due to exposed addresses and locations
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an intermediary addressing mechanism that decouples the relationship between device identities and their actual network addresses. Instead of devices using their real addresses directly in communications, an intermediary layer translates and masks addresses, allowing straightforward communication while protecting device privacy and security by preventing direct exposure of device locations and identities
3Reliability
If stateful relationships are created between servers and IoT devices, then communication reliability is improved, but system complexity and resource requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the communication system into stateless server components and stateful device components. The server side is designed to be stateless, processing each multicast message independently without maintaining complex state relationships, while devices on the receiving end handle the stateful aspects locally. This segmentation reduces overall system complexity while maintaining communication reliability through the structured multicast protocol
Data Source
AI summary
The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for providing cybersecurity functionality to computer implemented inventions such as Internet of Thing (IoT) systems and object devices, and more specifically, to an improved cybersecurity system, method and capabilities for the protecting IoT and similar devices through non-discriminatory vendor/supplier independent distribution of secure predetermined IoT syndication data to unidentified and non-registered IoT devices, through the use of a passive data distribution technology and out-of-band, system-to-device distribution channel and no peer-to-peer stateless relationship with the receiving device and using Quality of Service (QoS) and enabling the determination as to whether there is any suspicious activity occurring and prohibiting the IoT device from taking any customer-defined action without have a separately provided authentication.