A solution for provisioning reliable M2M infrastructures using SDN and device management

Abstract

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 significant. However, such an approach brings some challenges due to the dynamic instantiation of new service components: it is necessary to always announce clients changes in the backend infrastructure. In this paper, we propose a solution for dynamically communicating parameters provisioning between M2M endpoints using a device management protocol. Two device management protocols were compared and OMA LWM2M was chosen for its energy efficiency. The proposed solution is based on the OpenMTC toolkit and enables safe and reliable communication establishment from one M2M endpoint to another one elastically deployed in the cloud

Model Aspects of Quality of Service Management in Machine to Machine Communications

“…A number of different kind of management platforms have been developed to support this endeavor [10,15]. Device management platforms are typically developed by a single device vendor, work across different protocols and meet specific M2M application requirements [16].…”

“…It defines device management procedures between a LWM2M server and a LWM2M client, which is located in a device. The protocol is used to create device management solutions that apply the approach of software defined networks [9,10]. The proposed solutions based on LWM2M consider high level architectural aspects and do not provide details on behavioral models that follow the M2M device management procedures.…”

Application-derived communication protocol selection in M2M platforms for smart cities

“…The processing is then uniform for each of the management objects when it comes to parsing, storing, updating information related to the management objects. The LWM2M client-server interaction is done using the underlying data transfer protocol over CoAP/UDP, which decreases the message's overhead and improves eciency [176]. The DM message's exchange is based on RESTful operations on resources bound to the devices by follow- requests to corresponding capabilities in the platform, in addition to routing requests between applications connected to the same domain.…”

“…In the course of the research for this dissertation, several related publications have been disseminated that present the work within the topic of interest: eight conference papers reecting the main contributions ( [42,43,5,32,45,46,40,39]), one book chapter ( [190]) and six conference papers about related elds of application in the context of Smart City services ( [24,31,35,29,38,176]), and seven joint papers with other research projects members ( [191,136,36,37,43,44,192] open research issues to be addressed for the realization of this device-tier interaction [194]. However, it shall bring signicant improvements in developing emergency applications and vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communication.…”

Software-Defined Networks (SDNs) and Internet of Things (IoTs): A Qualitative Prediction for 2020

“…et al in [56] presented the concept of a management solution for dynamically instantiated services in an elastic environment. The information is exchanged between different entities consuming more energy when HTTP protocol is used for message forwarding.…”