Implementing Secure P2P-ONS

Name Services for the Internet of Things (specifically, the EPCglobal Network) are distributed systems that serve the following fundamental lookup function: Given an identifier for a real-world object, e.g., an Electronic Product Code (EPC), they return a list of Internet addresses of services, which offer additional information about this object. Without name services acting as a broker between items and their information sources, the Internet of Things could not achieve the flexibility and global scalability necessary to live up to its vision. The currently specified Object Naming Service (ONS) for the EPCglobal Network has severe security drawbacks in its architecture and design. In this paper, we present the implementation of a Peer-to- Peer name service architecture based on Distributed Hash Tables (DHT) on the research platform PlanetLab. This alternative ONS architecture named OIDA, if deployed as an infrastructure network, offers enhanced overall multilateral security compared to ONS, combined with potentially better functionality, scalability, and roughly equivalent performance.