Towards a Quality-of-Thing based approach for assigning things to federations
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Towards a Quality-of-Thing based approach for assigning things to federations Zakaria Maamar1 • Muhammad Asim2 • Khouloud Boukadi3 • Thar Baker4 • Saad Saeed2 Ikbel Guidara5 • Fadwa Yahya3 • Emir Ugljanin6 • Djamal Benslimane5
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Received: 26 April 2019 / Revised: 26 April 2019 / Accepted: 6 January 2020 Ó Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2020
Abstract In the context of an Internet-of-Things (IoT) ecosystem, this paper discusses two necessary stages for managing federations of things. The first stage defines things in terms of duties and non-functional properties that define the quality of these duties. And, the second stage uses these properties to assign appropriate things to future federations. Specialized into ad hoc and planned, federations are expected to satisfy needs and requirements of real-life situations like traffic control that arise at run-time. A set of experiments using a mix of real and simulated datasets, demonstrate the technical doability of thing assignment to federations and are presented in the paper, as well. Keywords Federation IoT Quality-of-Things Assignment
1 Introduction In [11], we presented the concept of Thing-Federationas-a-Service (TFaaS) as a novel way to address the silo constraint that impedes the collaboration of IoT-compliant things (things, for short). A federation is a group of things that are put together in order to handle a particular real-life situation such as tunnel closure triggered by a car accident. With respect to this situation, things forming a federation could be traffic light, speed-limit sign, speed camera, and flip-disc display; they all collaborate towards achieving smooth traffic diversion. We also presented in [11] how things are defined using a set of Quality-of-Thing (QoT) non-functional properties, how federations are specialized into planned and ad-hoc, and how federations could be deployed on top of a cloud/edge architecture. In & Zakaria Maamar [email protected] 1
Zayed University, Dubai, UAE
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FAST-NUCES, Islamabad, Pakistan
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University of Sfax, Sfax, Tunisia
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Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, UK
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Claude Bernard Lyon 1 University, Lyon, France
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State University of Novi Pazar, Novi Pazar, Serbia
conjunction with these contributions, a set of experiments using emergency services were carried out to demonstrate the technical doability of thing federation. In this paper that extends our work in [11], we focus on QoT-based assignment of things to federations. According to Gartner,1 6.4 billion connected things were in use in 2016, up 3% from 2015, and will reach 20.8 billion by 2020. The wireless world research forum also reported that in 2017, there were 7 trillion wireless devices serving 7 billion people leading to IoT formation [16]. This large and ever-growing number of things need to be ‘‘harnessed’’ so, that, things’ collective over individual behaviors prevail. We exemplify the collective behavior by combining things’ duties that w
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