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The Internet of Things (IoT) is a new concept that is growing in interest amongst researchers, businesses and the end users. It engages and stimulates certain fundamental traits of human behavior — our need and desire to interact, to exchange ideas and to communicate with the surrounding environment. While the IoT potentially breaks down barriers of distance and time, it is interesting to consider...
Service function chaining is a network capability that provides support for application-driven-networking through the ordered interconnection of service functions. The lifecycle management of service function chains is enabled by two recently emerged technologies, software defined networking and network function virtualization, that promise a number of efficiency, effectiveness, and flexibility gains...
Many cities around the globe are adopting the use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) as part of a strategy to transform into Smart Cities. These will allow cities in the developing world to cope with the ever increasing demand for services such as an effective electricity supply, healthcare and water management. Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communication standards play a vital role in enabling...
Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communication technology is emerging as one of the major trends shaping the development of services in Smart Cities. However, there are grand challenges related to complexity in integrating existing vertical silos limiting services interoperability. Providing standard M2M platforms allows the interaction of billions of devices and services in a network independent way. In...
The current trend of running software components on top of virtual machines in cloud platforms is gaining more momentum as it reduces the deployment time and operational costs in comparison to running them on dedicated hardware. By providing elasticity through orchestration, this approach brings even more value taking advantage of the resources on peak times and saving energy when the load is not...
Linking the communication and the information technology infrastructures forms the new Machine-to-machine (M2M) communication trend. We aim to exploit available standard protocols to support smart cities applications. In this paper, we report the work of implementing and evaluating the performance of using request/response protocols for M2M communications. The paper also introduces a mechanism to...
Currently, a lot of research efforts are ongoing in the Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communication area, with the object of creating an ubiquitous sensing framework to connect real and virtual things. In the same context, various standards developing organizations (SDO) have recently promoted standardization activities in the M2M domain. In this paper, we investigate the standardization efforts toward...
In some use cases, a persistent end-to-end connection between a given data source and a destination may never be present. Consequently, traditional routing protocols cannot be directly applied for delivering data. One example are Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN), due to the limited capabilities of the connected nodes and the lack of a reliable connection between them. Such networking paradigms are known...
With a large majority of the world's population moving towards urban environments in the foreseeable future, the notion of Smart City is emerging globally as an important research topic. The population movement will affect the consumption rate of natural resources i.e. water, soil, and plants. Therefore, innovative management and monitoring systems are required to enhance citizen's quality of life...
The intention of the Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communication paradigm is to connect human and physical things related to different aspects in our daily life, in order to enable the development of Smart Cities. Recently, many initiatives emerged developing new solutions to achieve higher energy efficiency for buildings, better transportation management, and stronger Smart Grids. In this paper, we highlight...
Context provisioning refers to the trend of gathering, transporting and processing context in order to promote context awareness in Future Internet services. Context awareness enables services to become adaptive, personalized, and accessible in dynamically changing environments. In various scenarios of Internet of things (IoT, connected objects shall be able to negotiate and adapt to their environment...
Mobile tracking system is used to monitor vehicles position and in special cases there are much useful information can be monitored such as speed, cabin temperature and number of passenger. This monitoring process is done using vehicle's position data from satellite through GPS device, and sending the data to a server through GSM modem. This paper proposes new approach on managing all vehicle data...
Information and Communication Technologies are playing major roles in creating Smart environments, and enhancing services in various sectors. The Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communication paradigm enables devices used in all live aspects to communicate and share information with limited human intervention. In this paper we present an M2M telemedicine service to monitor Electrocardiagram (ECG) signal...
For the last decades, we have witnessed new technological evolutions in the Internet, wireless networks, and sensors fields. Currently, we are able to build smart systems that improve quality of life and enhance environment management. However, most available smart systems are implemented based on proprietary hardware/software solutions, restricting interoperation, which is required for large-scale...
The current trend in operator networking is towards supporting the communication of devices which do not require human intervention for information gathering, processing and exchange over the network, generically named Machine Type Communication (MTC). This paradigm aims to increase the level of system automation in which the devices and systems can exchange and share data, facilitating the communication...
The upcoming communication aim will not focus on connecting humans by different kinds of multimedia services, but also connecting machines of different aspects, providing a global smart world. The telecommunication industry is currently moving towards service-oriented infrastructures based on Internet Protocol (IP), Service Oriented Architectures (SOA), and Service Delivery Platforms (SDP). In this...
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