An Approach to Self-Configuration of M2M Services

Abstract

The increased number of connected devices and Machine-to-Machine (M2M) applications becomes business and technical challenge for network operators. The complexity of connectivity challenge yields for appropriate connectivity management solutions. The explosion of M2M services may result in undesired service interaction. Despite of the considerable progress in service interaction management, there is a lack of knowledge on the kind of interaction in real M2M communication systems. In this paper, a method for service orchestration between M2M applications which add value to basic device connectivity management is proposed. The automatic resolving of service interaction using policies allows service self-configuration and provisioning of adaptive service continuity to end users.