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Do we want the New Old Internet?: Towards Seamless and Protocol-Independent IoT Application Interoperability

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Vadim Safronov,

Justas Brazauskas,

Matthew Danish,

Richard MortierAuthors Info & Claims

HotNets '21: Proceedings of the 20th ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks

Pages 185 - 191

https://doi.org/10.1145/3484266.3487374

Published: 04 November 2021 Publication History

Abstract

IoT is developing rapidly with frequently appearing new wireless standards and applications. However, besides a large number of IoT benefits, its further development is now being slowed down due to the repetition of old Internet development flaws while dealing with IoT heterogeneity. The current misleading trend aims to solve all IoT interoperation problems by inserting IP Addresses into those wireless protocols where the IP stack clearly slows down application performance and drains the battery, e.g. LPWANs such as LoRaWAN and SigFox. This paper tackles IoT heterogeneity from a different perspective: it is the application interoperation which matters the most. The protocols beneath the application layer shall work for smooth upper-layer service provisioning where the IP shall be just one of the many underlying integration options instead of being the essential one. Inspired by previous proposals for a more flexible internetworking architecture, this paper applies those theoretical concepts in practice by proposing a protocol-independent distributed interoperation model for smooth service provisioning over heterogeneous IoT wireless contexts. The arguments pro the IP-agnostic IoT application interoperation are supported by the model's prototype which showed 1.6-2 times faster MQTT application operation over LoRa and WiFi compared to the legacy IP-based MQTT provisioning over that protocols.

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Yoo YNiu ZYoo CCheng PXiong Y(2023)SegaNet: An Advanced IoT Cloud Gateway for Performant and Priority-Oriented Message DeliveryProceedings of the 7th Asia-Pacific Workshop on Networking10.1145/3600061.3600072(54-60)Online publication date: 29-Jun-2023
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Vitumbiko MKim Y(2023)Heterogeneous Wireless Device Management in Edge Computing Systems for IoT Services2023 14th International Conference on Information and Communication Technology Convergence (ICTC)10.1109/ICTC58733.2023.10393081(616-618)Online publication date: 11-Oct-2023
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