CISE-MSI: RCBP-ED: CNS: MBARKA: A Multi-tier Basic Architecture for fault-toleRant and K-secure IoT-based Autonomous campus monitoring systems

该研究项目的重点是分析，设计和开发节能，优化，容错和安全的物联网（IoT），用于部署监控系统，特别是校园监控系统。它的目的是建立一个坚实的理论基础，建立这样的系统使用的计算几何技术的组合，这是基于图模型和凸多面体，和密码技术。前一种技术有助于解决这些基于物联网的系统中的覆盖和数据收集和交付问题，而后一种技术有助于科普注入的坏传感器的存在。这一容错和安全监控系统的理论基础使TAMUK校园监控系统的开发成为可能，该系统特别关注校园人流监控。该项目有助于招募、培训和指导科学、技术、工程和数学（STEM）学科中代表性不足的少数民族学生和女学生，这使他们接触到支持容错和安全的基于物联网的校园监控系统的设计和开发的理论和实践。特别是，它允许学生接触到与多面体空间填充物，图论方法，密码技术和真实的传感器部署相关的各种概念。该研究项目有助于通过开发教学课程和资源来整合研究和教育，从而将接受高等教育的机会扩大到更广泛的本科生和研究生。此外，该理论基础可作为构建统一的容错和安全的基于物联网的校园监控系统的基础，包括环境、建筑能源、设施和道路交通。这一理论基础还可以帮助建立具有成本效益、容错、安全的物联网监控系统，例如美国边境监控系统。该研究项目的发现和成果可以通过地方、国家和国际会议进行传播，也可以发表在ACM Transactions和IEEE Transactions等享有盛誉和高度声誉的期刊上。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This research project focuses on the analysis, design, and development of energy-efficient, optimized, fault-tolerant, and secure Internet of Things (IoT) for the deployment of monitoring systems, and particularly, campus monitoring systems. It aims at establishing a solid theoretical foundation to build such systems using a combination of computational geometry techniques, which are based on graph models and convex polyhedra, and cryptography techniques. The former techniques help address the problems of coverage and data gathering and delivery in these IoT-based systems, while the latter ones help cope with the existence of injected bad sensors. This theoretical foundation for fault-tolerant and secure monitoring systems enables the development of a TAMUK campus monitoring system with a special focus on campus people traffic monitoring.This project helps recruit, train, and mentor underrepresented minority students and female students in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines, which gives them exposure to the theory and practice that support the design and development of fault-tolerant and secure IoT-based campus monitoring systems. In particular, it allows the students to get exposure to various concepts related to polyhedral space-fillers, graph theoretical approaches, cryptography techniques, and real sensor deployment. This research project helps integrate research and education via the development of curriculum and resources for teaching, thus expanding access to advanced higher education to a broader spectrum of undergraduate and graduate students. Furthermore, this theoretical foundation can serve as the basis for building a unified fault-tolerant and secure IoT-based campus monitoring systems, including environment, building energy, facility, and road traffic. This theoretical foundation can also help build cost-effective, fault-tolerant, secure IoT-based monitoring systems of national importance, such as U.S. boarder surveillance. The findings and results of this research project can be disseminated using local, national, and international conferences, and also published in prestigious and highly reputed journals, such as ACM Transactions and IEEE Transactions.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.