Internet of Things Architecture: Recent Advances, Taxonomy, Requirements, and Open Challenges
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-1-2017
Abstract
Recent years have witnessed tremendous growth in the number of smart devices, wireless technologies, and sensors. In the foreseeable future, it is expected that trillions of devices will be connected to the Internet. Thus, to accommodate such a voluminous number of devices, scalable, flexible, interoperable, energy-efficient, and secure network architectures are required. This article aims to explore IoT architectures. In this context, first, we investigate, highlight, and report premier research advances made in IoT architecture recently. Then we categorize and classify IoT architectures and devise a taxonomy based on important parameters such as applications, enabling technologies, business objectives, architectural requirements, network topologies, and IoT platform architecture types. We identify and outline the key requirements for future IoT architecture. A few prominent case studies on IoT are discovered and presented. Finally, we enumerate and outline future research challenges.
Keywords
Business objectives, Enabling technologies, Internet of things architectures, Platform architecture, Research advances, Research challenges, Secure network architecture, Wireless technologies
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Funders
Bright Sparks Program and the Research Grant from the University of Malaya under references BSP/APP/1689/2013, RP012C-13AFR, and UM.C/625/1/HIR/MOE/ FCSIT/03,Deanship of Scientific Research at King Saud University through Research Group No. RG # 1435-051
Publication Title
IEEE Wireless Communications
Volume
24
Issue
3
Publisher
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers