Middleware for Internet of Things: A Survey

Mohammad Abdur Razzaque,Marija Milojevic-Jevric,Andrei Palade,Siobhan Clarke

IEEE internet of things journal（2016）SCI 1区

Trinity Coll Dublin

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The Internet of Things (IoT) envisages a future in which digital and physical things or objects (e.g., smartphones, TVs, cars) can be connected by means of suitable information and communication technologies, to enable a range of applications and services. The IoT's characteristics, including an ultra-large-scale network of things, device and network level heterogeneity, and large numbers of events generated spontaneously by these things, will make development of the diverse applications and services a very challenging task. In general, middleware can ease a development process by integrating heterogeneous computing and communications devices, and supporting interoperability within the diverse applications and services. Recently, there have been a number of proposals for IoT middleware. These proposals mostly addressed wireless sensor networks (WSNs), a key component of IoT, but do not consider RF identification (RFID), machine-to-machine (M2M) communications, and supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA), other three core elements in the IoT vision. In this paper, we outline a set of requirements for IoT middleware, and present a comprehensive review of the existing middleware solutions against those requirements. In addition, open research issues, challenges, and future research directions are highlighted.

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Internet of Things (IoT) characteristics,machine-to-machine (M2M) communication,middleware requirements,RF identification (RFID),supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA),wireless sensor networks (WSNs)