IoT Reference Architecture

Bauer, Martin; Boussard, Mathieu; Bui, Nicola; Loof, Jourik De; Magerkurth, Carsten; Meißner, Stefan; Nettsträter, Andreas; Stefa, Julinda; Thoma, Matthias; Walewski, Joachim W.

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-40403-0_8

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“…In the context of architectures, a number of works have been proposed. The IoT-A project presented a service-based reference model architecture for the IoT [8]. The architecture we propose in this paper is compliant with the IoT reference architecture and refines the process management and the service organization layers presented in the reference architecture functional view.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 93%

ECo-IoT: An Architectural Approach for Realizing Emergent Configurations in the Internet of Things

Alkhabbas

Spalazzese

Davidsson

2018

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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The rapid proliferation of the Internet of Things (IoT) is changing the way we live our everyday life and the society in general. New devices get connected to the Internet every day and, similarly, new IoT services and applications exploiting them are developed across a wide range of domains. The IoT environment typically is very dynamic, devices might suddenly become unavailable and new ones might appear. Similarly, users enter and/or leave the IoT environment while being interested in fulfilling their individual needs. These key aspects must be considered while designing and realizing IoT systems. In this paper we propose ECo-IoT, an architectural approach to enable the automated formation and adaptation of Emergent Configurations (ECs) in the IoT. An EC is formed by a set of things, with their services, functionalities, and applications, to realize a user goal. ECs are adapted in response to (un)foreseen context changes e.g., changes in available things or due to changing or evolving user goals. In the paper, we describe: (i) an architecture and a process for realizing ECs; and (ii) a prototype we implemented for (iii) the validation of ECo-IoT through an IoT scenario that we use throughout the paper.

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Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 93%

ECo-IoT: An Architectural Approach for Realizing Emergent Configurations in the Internet of Things

Alkhabbas

Spalazzese

Davidsson

2018

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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“…This section presents our proposed architecture, shown in Figure 2, to deal with the challenges of the changing environment put forward in Section 2. Various of the architectural components are inspired on the reference IoT architecture [4], complemented by new components to deal with dynamic adaptations.…”

Section: An Adaptive Iot Architecturementioning

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“…The aforementioned problems evidence that changes in the surrounding environment of IoT systems (both internal and external), require the system to adapt to said changes to continue working seamlessly. However, current (reference) IoT architectures [4] are not equipped to deal with these problems (Section 7).…”

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A Research Agenda for IOT Adaptive Architectures

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Adaptation is very important in IOT systems, due to their continuously changing environments. Changes may come from different elements of the architecture underlying an IOT system. Existing literature pays special attention to changes in the Service layer using evolution agents or context aware approaches to manage adaptations to said changes. In this paper, we elaborate on eight challenges that developers face when building adaptive IOT systems. Such challenges take into account changes at the Services layer, but also in the Middleware and Physical layers. These challenges serve us as a research agenda to foster IOT technology. As a starting point, we design an architecture to deal with the posited challenges. Various of the architectural components are inspired on a reference architecture, and complemented by new components to manage dynamic adaptations in response to the identified challenges. Preliminary experiments provide an initial insight about the feasibility and/or impact of our adaptive architecture.

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“…The process management layer in the IoT-A functional view is composed of two components: a process modelling and a process execution [2]. We refine it by providing a concrete architecture for the IoT-A process management layer, illustrated in Figure 4 and described below, and a (user) goal-directed approach.…”

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“…For instance, the IoT-A project (http://www.iot-a.eu), according to [2], investigated an architectural reference model for the IoT [8]. The IoT-A is based on a serviceoriented approach where devices, data, and interfaces, are abstracted and implemented as services.…”

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Architecting Emergent Configurations in the Internet of Things

Alkhabbas

Spalazzese

Davidsson

2017

2017 IEEE International Conference on Software Architecture (ICSA)

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Abstract-The Internet of Things (IoT) has a great potential to change our lives. Billions of heterogeneous, distributed, intelligent, and sometimes mobile devices, will be connected and offer new types of applications and ways to interact. The dynamic environment of the IoT, the involvement of the human in the loop, and the runtime interactions among devices and applications, put additional requirements on the systems' architecture. In this paper, we use the Emergent Configurations (ECs) concept as a way to engineer IoT systems and propose an architecture for ECs. More specifically, we discuss (i) how connected devices and applications form ECs to achieve users goals and (ii) how applications are run and adapted in response to runtime context changes including, e.g., the sudden unavailability of devices, by exploiting the Smart Meeting Room case.

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IoT Reference Architecture

Cited by 62 publications

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ECo-IoT: An Architectural Approach for Realizing Emergent Configurations in the Internet of Things

ECo-IoT: An Architectural Approach for Realizing Emergent Configurations in the Internet of Things

A Research Agenda for IOT Adaptive Architectures

Architecting Emergent Configurations in the Internet of Things

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