The Internet of Things 20th Tyrrhenian Workshop on Digital Communica
This book presents a selection of papers submitted to the 20th Tyrrhenian Workshop, which took place in September 2009 in Sardinia, Italy. The workshop focused on the "Internet of Things." This subject is quickly emerging in the wireless technol
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Daniel Giusto · Antonio Iera · Giacomo Morabito Luigi Atzori Editors
The Internet of Things 20th Tyrrhenian Workshop on Digital Communications
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Editors Daniel Giusto Universit`a di Cagliari Dipto. Ingegneria Elettrica e Elettronica Piazza d’ Armi 09123 Cagliari Italy [email protected]
Giacomo Morabito Universit`a Catania Dipto. Ingegneria Elettrica Elettronica e dei Sistemi (DIEES) Viale Andrea Doria, 6 95125 Catania Italy
Antonio Iera Universit`a Mediterranea Fac. Ingegneria Dipto. D.I.M.E.T Via Graziella (Feo di Vito) 89100 Reggio Calabria Italy
Luigi Atzori Universit`a di Cagliari Dipto. Ingegneria Elettrica e Elettronica Plazza d’ Armi 09123 Cagliari Italy
ISBN 978-1-4419-1673-0 e-ISBN 978-1-4419-1674-7 DOI 10.1007/978-1-4419-1674-7 Springer New York Dordrecht Heidelberg London Library of Congress Control Number: 2010923231 c Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2010 ° All rights reserved. This work may not be translated or copied in whole or in part without the written permission of the publisher (Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 233 Spring Street, New York, NY 10013, USA), except for brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis. Use in connection with any form of information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed is forbidden. The use in this publication of trade names, trademarks, service marks, and similar terms, even if they are not identified as such, is not to be taken as an expression of opinion as to whether or not they are subject to proprietary rights. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
Preface
In the last few years, a stimulating idea is fast emerging in the wireless scenario: the pervasive presence around us of a variety of “things” or “objects”, such as RFID, sensors, actuators, mobile phones, which, through unique addressing schemes, are able to interact with each other and cooperate with their neighboring “smart” components to reach common goals. This novel paradigm, named “The Internet of Things” (IoT) continues on the path set by the concept of smart environments and paves the way to the deployment of numerous applications with a significant impact on many fields of future every-day life. In this context, logistics, Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), business/process management, assisted living, and e-health are only a few examples of possible application fields in which this novel paradigm will play a leading role in the next future. Actually, many challenging issues still need to be addressed and both technological and social nodes untied before the IoT idea being widely accepted. Central issues are making a full interoperability of such devices possible, enabling their adaptation and autonomous behavior, as well as guaranteeing trust, privacy, and security. Also, the IoT idea poses several new problems concerning the networking aspects. In fact, the “things” composing the IoT will
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