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A device-centric approach to a safer Internet of Things. / Chen, C.; Helal, Sumi.
NoME-IoT '11 Proceedings of the 2011 international workshop on Networking and object memories for the internet of things. New York: ACM, 2011. p. 1-6.

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Chen, C & Helal, S 2011, A device-centric approach to a safer Internet of Things. in NoME-IoT '11 Proceedings of the 2011 international workshop on Networking and object memories for the internet of things. ACM, New York, pp. 1-6. https://doi.org/10.1145/2029932.2029934

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Chen, C., & Helal, S. (2011). A device-centric approach to a safer Internet of Things. In NoME-IoT '11 Proceedings of the 2011 international workshop on Networking and object memories for the internet of things (pp. 1-6). ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/2029932.2029934

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Chen C, Helal S. A device-centric approach to a safer Internet of Things. In NoME-IoT '11 Proceedings of the 2011 international workshop on Networking and object memories for the internet of things. New York: ACM. 2011. p. 1-6 doi: 10.1145/2029932.2029934

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Chen, C. ; Helal, Sumi. / A device-centric approach to a safer Internet of Things. NoME-IoT '11 Proceedings of the 2011 international workshop on Networking and object memories for the internet of things. New York : ACM, 2011. pp. 1-6

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