May 17 - May 21 Week 1

• Program introduction, project descriptions, and project allocations

• N/A

May 24 - May 28 Week 2

• Read on traditional security protocols and foundations

  • Symmetric key encryption

  • Asymmetric key encryption

• Read through required readings

  • Symmetric key and asymmetric key encryption

  • Specific algorithms such as AES, DES, and RSA

• Meet with our Ph.D. student advisor Dami

May 31 - June 4 Week 3

• Start literature review on lightweight security protocols developed for IoT applications

  • Start off with symmetric key encryptions

• Installation of old IoT simulator

• Other notes and deliverables:

  • Memorial day holiday

• Read through required lightweight cryptography paper

  • Ultra lightweight and ubiquitous cryptography

  • Chose the lightweight protocols to be further researched next week

• Nearly finished with installation of old IoT simulator

June 7 - June 11 Week 4

• Continue reading lightweight protocols for IoT

• Find papers on asymmetric lightweight protocols, if any. or expand upon individual protocols from symmetric protocols survey paper

• Familiarize functional workflow for old IoT simulator and relate it to the original project topic paper

• Draw outlines on which security protocols to be used, how to dynamically switch between them based on user preferences, and where and how will they be implemented (e.g. software or hardware implementation etc.)

• Continued reading lightweight protocols for IoT

  • shortlisted a few protocols which fit our parameters

• Familiarized ourselves with java simulator - related it to the original project paper

June 14 - June 18 Week 5

• Further improve upon solution outline started in the previous week

  • Identify challenges that might exist

• Start implementation of new simulator framework using ML algorithm (understand basics of this tool from PhD mentor)

• Develop outline of differences between old simulator and new simulator

• Other notes and deliverables:

  • Register for Mid-SURE (https://urca.msu.edu/mid-sure/reg) Hard Deadline.

• Created a structure for the user selection process

• Implemented ML simulator

  • Still familiarizing ourselves with how it works

  • Learned about how the GA simulator and ML simulator are connected

• Registered for MID-SURE program

June 21 - June 25 Week 6

• Presentation topics: Introduction of problem description, motivations, literature review till date, existing old simulator, outlines of existing ML framework, proposed solution approach and outline of selected security protocols to be implemented and challenges that may exist

• Other notes and deliverables:

  • Midterm presentations

• Presented midterm presentation

• Installed shortlisted, lightweight protocols for implementation

  • Successfully ran Trivium, Ascon, and NtruEncrypt

  • Dropped GIMLI and Elliptic Curve Diffie Hellman (did not fit project goals/time constraint)

• Created encryption/decryption speed tests for successful protocol implementations

  • Also tested for packet size post-encryption vs. pre-encryption

June 28 - July 2 Week 7

• Install and familiarize with Cup Carbon IoT emulator tool

• Installed CupCarbon simulator

  • Have some understanding of the simulator's inner workings

• Reworked Present implementation code

  • Also created test code

• Created graphical representation of protocol speed data from the previous week

• Created tabular comparison of lightweight algorithms to commonly-known traditional algorithms from the above graphs

July 5 - July 9 Week 8

• Import ML-based IoT simulator into CupCarbon and start working on implementing your problem domain and security protocol approach

• Other notes and deliverables:

  • Independence day observed

• Specified the user security selection model and updated the UI in CupCarbon simulator

• Troubleshot CupCarbon difficulties (overcame simulation runtime errors)

• Started implementation of protocols (still in progress)

July 12 - July 16 Week 9

• Keep working on Cup Carbon implementation challenges

• Work towards finishing up final report

• Finish up final poster for final presentation next week

• Continued implementation of protocols in Cup Carbon.

• Had meetings with Dr.Sen and Dami to understand the senscript/abstraction portions of the simulator

• Created rough draft of poster

July 19 - July 23 Week 10

• Finish up report in LaTeX using IEEE conference template based on feedback received from mentor

• Finish up any remainder activities with respect to simulation, if any.

• Other notes and deliverables:

  • Final presentations, report, codebase, and other materials due (Final poster, PPT, etc.)

  • July 28th - Mid-SURE workshop presentation - virtual