Submitted by Silvana Teresinha Dornelles Studzinski (sstudzinski) on 2015-07-06T19:27:00Z No. of bitstreams: 1 JanainaConceicaoSutilLemos.pdf: 790058 bytes, checksum: 85e90c997855bb472d17380ce64d7c95 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2015-07-06T19:27:00Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 JanainaConceicaoSutilLemos.pdf: 790058 bytes, checksum: 85e90c997855bb472d17380ce64d7c95 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-09-30 / Nenhuma / Com a crescente popularização dos dispositivos móveis nos últimos anos, há uma necessidade cada vez maior de conectividade e de serviços nas redes de computadores. Nesse contexto, as tecnologias para descoberta de serviços simplificam a interação entre usuários e dispositivos, facilitando as tarefas administrativas, principalmente quando existe a necessidade de adicionar novos equipamentos. Devido a grande diversidade de ambientes onde essas tecnologias podem ser utilizadas, surge também a necessidade de tratar as questões relacionadas a segurança e ao mesmo tempo, preservar a facilidade de uso do sistema. Neste trabalho é apresentado um sistema para descoberta segura de serviços em redes locais com arquitetura descentralizada, o Sec-SD (Secure Service Discovery Protocol). Através do uso de mecanismos para criptografia e autenticação, o Sec-SD visa estabelecer uma relação de confiança entre as partes envolvidas na descoberta de serviços antes da divulgação de informações relacionadas a estas, prevenindo assim os ataques causados pelo anúncio de falsos serviços, bem como o acesso a serviços restritos por usuários ilegítimos, objetivando ser ao mesmo tempo seguro e de fácil uso para humanos. O presente sistema permite que uma entidade atue simultaneamente como cliente e provedor de serviços, sem a necessidade de utilizar diretórios para anunciar serviços e/ou realizar buscas pelos mesmos, fazendo ainda com que a existência de provedores redundantes para um mesmo serviço seja tratada de forma a ser transparente para os usuários. Para validação, é avaliado o tráfego gerado pelas mensagens do Sec-SD e além disso, foi desenvolvido um protótipo, que é utilizado para integrar funcionalidades para descoberta segura de serviços no LP2P (Local Peer-to-Peer Protocol), que é uma plataforma para compartilhamento de arquivos P2P para redes locais desenvolvida no Grupo de Redes de Computadores e Sistemas Distribuídos do PIPCA – UNISINOS. / Given the growing popularity of mobile devices in recent years, there is an increasing need for connectivity and services in computer networks. In this context, service discovery technologies aim to simplify the interaction between users and devices, facilitating administrative tasks, especially when there is a need to add new equipments. Due to the diversity of environments where these technologies can be used, there also the need to address security issues and, at the same time, to preserv the usability of the system. This work presents a system for secure service discovery on local networks with decentralized architecture, called Sec-SD – Secure Service Discovery Protocol. Sec-SD makes use of cryptography and authentication mechanisms in order to allow only valid users to obtain information about the available services. In this way, is possible to prevent several attacks caused by the advertisement of false services and by service access performed by illegitimate users, aiming to be at the same time secure and easy-of-use for humans. This model allows the same entity to act simultaneously as a client and a service provider, without the use of any directory to register services and/or search for available services. The existence of redundant service providers is also addressed by the model in order to be transparent for human users. For validation, the traffic generated by the Sec-SD messages is evaluated and a prototype is used to provide secure service discovery facilities into a P2P file sharing focused in Local Area Networks called LP2P (Local Peer-to-Peer Protocol), that was developed at PIPCA - UNISINOS.

Um dos grandes avanços na área da computação nas últimas décadas refere-se aos sistemas distribuídos. O uso de tais sistemas tem crescido vertiginosamente nos últimos anos. Com o surgimento e uso de tecnologias de redes sem-fio, os sistemas ganharam mobilidade e dinamismo. Pessoas podem entrar ou sair de seus locais de trabalho, de entretenimento ou mesmo de suas casas com seus computadores móveis; redes podem ser formadas ou extintas conforme a dinâmica de um grupo de pessoas; e novos serviços podem ser disponibilizados ou interrompidos. Em sistemas como tais, um sistema de localização de serviços automático é fundamental para acompanhar as contínuas modificações na rede. A localização de serviços permite que, em uma rede de endereçamento estático ou dinâmico, dispositivos e serviços possam ser encontrados de modo completamente automático. A presente dissertação propõe um sistema de localização lógica (endereçamento) de serviços e dispositivos em uma rede local ou geograficamente distribuída, indo ao encontro às necessidades de controle de sistemas distribuídos dinâmicos, contribuindo ao mesmo tempo com questões de usabilidade e configuração automática de redes. O sistema, também, busca resolver questões relacionadas ao uso dos serviços entre redes protegidas por firewalls ou que utilizam configurações de NAT. / In the last decades, one of the most important progresses in computation is related to the distributed systems. The usage of these systems has increased a lot, in the last years. Due the emergence of wireless technologies, systems have acquired mobility and dynamism. People can enter or leave places, such as home, workplaces and entertainment spots, caring their mobile computers; networks can be formed or extinguished in accordance with the people dynamism; and new services can be available or interrupted. At these systems, a service location system is needed to keep track of the unceasing modifications in the network. The service location enables that services and devices can be found, at dynamic or static networks. This master thesis proposes a system for location of the logical addresses of services and devices at local or wide area networks. This work contributes to issues related to distributed systems control, usability and automatic network configuration. This system also solves questions related to service usage between networks using firewalls or NAT. Besides that, other points related to network interconnections in distributed systems, for example, using the Internet, are raised and solved.

<p>This thesis covers design and implementation of a media system solution for home networks with personal computers and a set-top box. </p><p>In a home there are effectively two independent media systems with the same purpose: the personal computer and the digital set-top box, with the purpose of delivering digital media in form of audio and video to the consumer.</p><p>The goal of the thesis work was to implement a solution that bridges the gap between the two systems, so that the user, from the set-top box, can play back media that is actually stored on one or several personal computers. </p><p>Our solution is based on UPnP technology, which is used for service discovery and control. The choice of UPnP is motivated by an evaluation of discovery protocols, which concludes that UPnP is the most suitable technology in this particular system. Also, an evaluation of suitable transport protocols was done. Here,HTTP was used. </p><p>For the personal computer, a media server and a graphical user interface for configuring the media server were created. For the set-top box, a media client, and a graphical user interface for browsing the content of the media server, were created. In conclusion, the creation of the prototype was successful and the set-top box was able to playback media that had been shared by the PC on the network.</p>

This thesis introduces LIFT, a combination of a cluster-based approach with a cross-layer scheme in order to discover services in MANET. In this proposal, High Capability Devices (HCD) are differentiated from Limited Capability Devices (LCD). HCD are set up as the cluster leaders in each cluster so as to perform most of the service discovery activities. Thus, LIFT manages local traffic instead of global traffic. Consequently, messages, energy, computing processes, and bandwidth were reduced due to the optimum usage of network resources. In order to know if LIFT achieves its goal to minimize resources, we have compared LIFT with another well-known solution (AODV-SD) in terms of control message overhead, energy consumption, PDR, throughput, hop count average, NRL, end-to-end delay, and service acquisition time. After carrying out many trials and simulations, LIFT improved previous results in the area. / La tesis presenta a LIFT, una solución para descubrir servicios en MANET que combina un enfoque basado en cluster con un esquema cross-layer. En esta propuesta se diferencian los dispositivos de capacidades superiores (HCD) de los dispositivos de capacidades limitadas (LCD). Los HCD se establecen como líderes en cada cluster para ejecutar la mayoría de las actividades de descubrimiento de servicios. De esta forma, LIFT maneja tráfico local en vez de tráfico global. Por tanto, se reduce el consumo de mensajes, energía y cómputo al hacer uso óptimo de los recursos de la red. Para saber si LIFT logra el objetivo de minimizar recursos, lo hemos comparado contra otra solución (AODV-SD) en aspectos como sobrecarga de paquetes de control, consumo de energía, PDR, throughput, promedio de saltos, NRL, retardo extremo a extremo y tiempo de adquisición de servicios. Después de muchas pruebas y simulaciones, LIFT mejora resultados anteriores en este campo

The Web turns out to be a collection of services that interoperate through the Internet. As the number of services increase, it is getting more and more diffucult for users to find, filter and integrate these services depending on their requirements. Automatic techniques are being developed to fulfill these tasks. The first step toward automatic composition is the discovery of services needed. UDDI which is one of the accepted web standards, provides a registry of web services. However representation capabilities of UDDI are insufficient to search for services on the basis of what they provide. Semantic web initiatives like OWL and OWL-S are promising for locating exact services based on their capabilities. In this thesis, a new semantic service discovery mechanism is implemented based on OWL-S service profiles. The service profiles of an advertisement and a request are matched based on OWL ontologies describing them. In contrast to previous work on the subject, the ontologies of the advertisement and the request are not assumed to be same. In case they are different, schema matching algorithms are applied. Schema matching algorithms find the mappings between the given schema models. A hybrid combination of semantic, syntactic and structural schema matching algorithms are applied to match ontologies

Web Service technology is one of the most rapidly developing contemporary technologies. Nowadays, Web Services are being used by a large number of projects and academic studies all over the world. As the use of Web service technology is increasing, it becomes harder to find the most suitable web service which meets the Quality of Service (QoS) as well as functional requirements of the user. In addition, quality of the web services (QoS) that take part in the software system becomes very important. In this thesis, we develop a method to track the QoS primitives of Web Services and an algorithm to automatically calculate QoS values for Web Services. The proposed method is realized within a domain specific web service discovery system, namely DSWSD-S, Domain Specific Web Service Discovery with Semantics. This system searches the Internet and finds web services that are related to a domain and calculates QoS values through some parameters. When a web service is queried, our system returns suitable web services with their QoS values. How to calculate, keep track of and store QoS values constitute the main part of this study.

Τα τελευταία χρόνια η ανάπτυξη των Ανοιχτών Συστημάτων Υπερκειμένου (ΑΣΥ) είναι ευρεία με την προσθήκη νέων πεδίων και αρχιτεκτονικών που βοηθούν στην καλύτερη οργάνωση της πληροφορίας με στόχο την εξομοίωση και επαύξηση της σκέψης του ανθρώπου στο συγκεκριμένο τομέα. Ωστόσο, η χρησιμοποίηση των ΑΣΥ από το ευρύ κοινό είναι πολύ μικρή διότι η κατηγορία των συστημάτων αυτών δεν έχει καταφέρει μέχρι στιγμής να γίνει γνωστή για τα πλεονεκτήματα που προσφέρει όσον αφορά τη διαχείριση, τη δόμηση και τη σύνδεση της πληροφορίας. Επίσης, η κοινωνία των ΑΣΥ δεν έχει ακόμα παγιώσει κοινές μεθοδολογίες και υποδομές που θα βοηθούσαν κάθε developer να εισάγει εύκολα στην εφαρμογή του λειτουργίες υπερκειμένου. Στην παρούσα Μεταπτυχιακή εργασία γίνεται μια προσπάθεια για την ανάπτυξη μιας υποδομής που βοηθά τον developer στην εύκολη ενσωμάτωση υπηρεσιών υπερκειμένου στην εφαρμογή του. Έτσι, μελετήθηκε, σχεδιάστηκε και υλοποιήθηκε ο τρόπος με τον οποίο μπορεί να γίνει ανακάλυψη υπηρεσιών (service discovery) στα σύγχρονα Ανοικτά Συστήματα Υπερκειμένου βασισμένα σε Ψηφίδες (ΑΣΥ-ΒΨ). Στα πλαίσια της αρχιτεκτονικής της ανακάλυψης υπηρεσιών των ΑΣΥ-ΒΨ μελετήθηκαν οι αρχιτεκτονικές πελάτη/εξυπηρετητή και peer-to-peer. Το άμεσο αποτέλεσμα της συγκεκριμένης προσπάθειας είναι η παροχή στον developer εργαλείου (μηχανισμού) που τον βοηθάει στην αναζήτηση και επισκόπηση υπηρεσιών υπερκειμένου και στην εύκολη επιλογή κατάλληλης υπηρεσίας (με βάση τα χαρακτηριστικά της). Το μελλοντικό αποτέλεσμα της συγκεκριμένης προσπάθειας θα είναι η επίτευξη της γνωστοποίησης των υπηρεσιών που προσφέρουν τα ΑΣΥ-ΒΨ σε όλο και μεγαλύτερο σύνολο από developers με αποτέλεσμα όλο και περισσότερες εφαρμογές να χρησιμοποιούν τις υπηρεσίες των ΑΣΥ-ΒΨ. / In the last few years, Component-Based Open Hypermedia Systems (CB-OHS) have been widely developed with the addition of new hypermedia domains and architectural models for better data organization with main aim to equate and increase the human thinking in this particular field. However, OHS aren’t widely used because they haven’t managed, until this time, to become popular for the advantages that they offer on management, structuring and data linking. Additionally, the OHS community hasn’t yet effectively targeted in the establishment of common methodologies and frameworks that could help any developer to insert hypermedia functionality into his applications. In this Master’s thesis an effort is being made to develop an infrastructure which will help any developer to integrate easily, in his application, hypermedia services. Taking into consideration the above issues, the application of Service Discovery functionality to Component-Based Open Hypermedia Systems was investigated, analyzed and developed, in the context of this project. Trying to specify the architecture that should better fit in this case, two different types of architecture were examined; the client/server and the peer-to-peer architecture. The direct objective of this study is to provide developers with a tool that will help them to search easily and effectively, review and finally choose the proper structure service for them based on each service’s characteristics. A long-term objective of the current research is to make CB-OHS services widely known to developer communities in order to broaden the utilization of the above mentioned services by more and more applications.

In this thesis, we present a hybrid semantic web service discovery framework that exploits both the signatures and specifications of a web service, whilst adopting logical and non-logical service matching methods. For signature level service matching, we have developed two techniques: (i) logical similarity measures applied to the services’ input/output concepts; and (b) non-logical matching based on a Structure Preserving Semantic Matching algorithm. For specification level service matching, we have applied a unique short sentence matching approach on the textual-description of a web service. We evaluated the performance of our S5 Web Service Matchmaker using the OWLS-TC dataset, and furthermore compared its performance with the OWLS-MX discovery model. Our results indicate that S5 Web Service Matchmaker offers an improved web service matching performance with a significant increase in recall and subtle improvements in precision. / Web services are independent software systems designed to offer machine-to-machine interactions over the WWW to achieve well-described operations. The description of a web service entails (a) a syntactic component detailing the service’s operations and data structures in terms of the Web Services Description Language (WSDL), and (b) a semantic component that offers a semantic description, in terms of an ontology, of the services’ data and operations. Typically, service providers expose their services to the public by providing brief descriptions of the service’s operations; the challenge is to discover the right service based on rather sparse service descriptions in response to a specific service request. In this thesis, we present a hybrid semantic web service discovery framework that offer semantic web service discovery at both the signature and specification levels of a web service, whilst exploiting logical and non-logical service matching methods. For signature level service matching, we have developed two techniques: (i) logical similarity measures applied to the services’ input/output concepts; and (b) non-logical matching based on a Structure Preserving Semantic Matching algorithm. For specification level service matching, we have applied a unique short sentence matching approach on the textual-description of a web service. The cumulative similarly measures determine the overall similarity of a services’ description with the service request. We evaluated the performance of our S5 Web Service Matchmaker using the OWLS-TC dataset, and furthermore compared its performance with the OWLS-MX discovery model. Our results indicate that S5 Web Service Matchmaker offers an improved web service matching performance with a significant increase in recall and subtle improvements in precision.

This thesis covers design and implementation of a media system solution for home networks with personal computers and a set-top box. In a home there are effectively two independent media systems with the same purpose: the personal computer and the digital set-top box, with the purpose of delivering digital media in form of audio and video to the consumer. The goal of the thesis work was to implement a solution that bridges the gap between the two systems, so that the user, from the set-top box, can play back media that is actually stored on one or several personal computers. Our solution is based on UPnP technology, which is used for service discovery and control. The choice of UPnP is motivated by an evaluation of discovery protocols, which concludes that UPnP is the most suitable technology in this particular system. Also, an evaluation of suitable transport protocols was done. Here,HTTP was used. For the personal computer, a media server and a graphical user interface for configuring the media server were created. For the set-top box, a media client, and a graphical user interface for browsing the content of the media server, were created. In conclusion, the creation of the prototype was successful and the set-top box was able to playback media that had been shared by the PC on the network.

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