IEEE ComSoc Sister Chapters 2025 Lecture Series - HTTP/3 Based Local Cloud to Improve Smart Home in to Underserved Regions

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This lecture explores enhancing and securing smart home devices through edge and hybrid cloud systems using HTTP/3. HTTP/3, the latest HTTP protocol, improves on predecessors by using UDP-based transport, allowing lightweight, efficient data transmission and eliminating the TCP three-way handshake. These features make HTTP/3 promising for IoT applications, overcoming limitations of current protocols like HTTP and CoAP. By leveraging edge computing to reduce latency through local data processing and containerization technologies, this research deploys a localized cloud within smart homes using Raspberry Pi clusters with Nextcloud and Home Assistant. This setup addresses privacy concerns, reduces external network dependence, and improves performance, especially in rural and underserved areas. Through literature review and practical implementation, this work evaluates HTTP/3’s effectiveness in smart home environments, proposing a resilient architecture integrating edge and cloud computing to improve latency, resource use, and energy efficiency. The lecture also includes security measures for HTTP/3 in cloud environments, ensuring robust performance and secure data exchange.


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  • Co-sponsored by LaRRIS (Laboratoire de Recherche en Réseaux, Informatique et Sécurité) - Faculty of Sciences - Lebanese University

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Dr. Jacob Koch

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HTTP/3 Based Local Cloud to Improve Smart Home Performance, Security, and Extend Functionality to Underserved Regions

This presentation explores enhancing and securing smart home devices through edge and hybrid cloud systems using HTTP/3. HTTP/3, the latest HTTP protocol, improves on predecessors by using UDP-based transport, allowing lightweight, efficient data transmission and eliminating the TCP three-way handshake. These features make HTTP/3 promising for IoT applications, overcoming limitations of current protocols like HTTP and CoAP. By leveraging edge computing to reduce latency through local data processing and containerization technologies, this research deploys a localized cloud within smart homes using Raspberry Pi clusters with Nextcloud and Home Assistant. This setup addresses privacy concerns, reduces external network dependence, and improves performance, especially in rural and underserved areas. Through literature review and practical implementation, this work evaluates HTTP/3’s effectiveness in smart home environments, proposing a resilient architecture integrating edge and cloud computing to improve latency, resource use, and energy efficiency. The presentation also includes security measures for HTTP/3 in cloud environments, ensuring robust performance and secure data exchange.

Biography:

Jacob Koch is an Assistant Professor of Cyber Security and IT at Northern Kentucky University in the School of Computing and Analytics. He received his B.A. in History from the University of Cincinnati in 2018, with a focus in 19th century American history and lead several research projects that focused on local history in southwest Ohio and Northern Kentucky. He received his M.S. degrees in Computer Information Technology (CIT) in 2022, from Northern Kentucky University, focusing on cloud computing and virtualization technologies, while also being an active member in NKU’s cybersecurity club, specifically the RD branch. He was recognized for his contributions to Northern Kentucky University with the outstanding graduate student award in 2022. He received his PhD in Information Technology from the University of Cincinnati in 2025, with his dissertation focusing on the deployment of local cloud and edge services to process data and serve cloud services in underserved regions using HTTP/3. His research interests are primarily in cloud computing and virtualization technologies, as well as IoT, and cyber security, with papers such as "Practical Applications of Edge Computing to Accelerate Cloud Hosted Web Content" and "Securing HTTP/3 Web Architecture in the Cloud" winning best paper of the session. He has worked with both state and government officials for his research regarding history, bat populations, virtual systems, and currently has been focusing on designing courses and content relating to cloud computing, virtualization, and security at Northern Kentucky University.

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Address:University of Cincinnati, 2610 University Circle 150 & 250 Teachers-Dyer Complex, Cincinnati, OH 45221, United States