TY - JOUR
T1 - Middleware for Internet of Things: A Survey
AU - Razzaque, M. A. (Mohammad)
AU - Milojevic-Jevric, Marija
AU - Palade, Andrei
AU - Clarke, Siobhan
PY - 2015/11/9
Y1 - 2015/11/9
N2 - 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 largescale
network of things, device and network level heterogeneity,
and the large number 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 the 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 Radio-
Frequency IDentification (RFID), Machine to Machine (M2M)
communications, and Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition
(SCADA), other three core elements in the IoT vision. Taking a
holistic view, in this article, 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.
AB - 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 largescale
network of things, device and network level heterogeneity,
and the large number 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 the 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 Radio-
Frequency IDentification (RFID), Machine to Machine (M2M)
communications, and Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition
(SCADA), other three core elements in the IoT vision. Taking a
holistic view, in this article, 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.
U2 - 10.1109/JIOT.2015.2498900
DO - 10.1109/JIOT.2015.2498900
M3 - Article
SN - 2327-4662
SP - -
JO - IEEE Internet of Things Journal
JF - IEEE Internet of Things Journal
ER -