Multimedia traffic security architecture for the internet of things

An important challenge for supporting multimedia applications in the Internet of Things is the security heterogeneity of wired and wireless sensor and actuator networks. In this work, we design a new and efficient media-aware security framework for facilitating various multimedia applications in the Internet of Things. First, we present a novel multimedia traffic classification and analysis method for handling the heterogeneity of diverse applications. Then a media-aware traffic security architecture is proposed based on the given traffic classification to enable various multimedia services being available anywhere and anytime. Furthermore, we provide a design rule and strategy to achieve a good trade-off between a system¿s flexibility and efficiency. To the best of our knowledge, this study is the first to provide general media-aware security architecture by jointly considering the characteristics of multimedia traffic, security service, and the Internet of Things.