Lightweight Named Object: An ICN-Based Abstraction for IoT Device Programming and Management

The expected dramatic growth of connected things raises the issue of how to efficiently organize them, in order to monitor and manage functions and interactions. Information centric networking (ICN) is a communication paradigm that provides content-oriented functionality in the network and at the ne...

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Published in:IEEE internet of things journal Vol. 6; no. 3; pp. 5029 - 5039
Main Authors: Bracciale, Lorenzo, Loreti, Pierpaolo, Detti, Andrea, Paolillo, Riccardo, Melazzi, Nicola Blefari
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Piscataway IEEE 01.06.2019
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subjects:
Augmentation
Caching
Cameras
data-centric security
distributed objects
Erosion
Hardware
information centric networking (ICN)
Internet of Things
Internet of Things (IoT)
Lightweight
Multicasting
named data networking (NDN)
naming
Performance evaluation
Programming
programming language
Security
Software
Upgrading
ISSN:2327-4662, 2327-4662
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Summary:The expected dramatic growth of connected things raises the issue of how to efficiently organize them, in order to monitor and manage functions and interactions. Information centric networking (ICN) is a communication paradigm that provides content-oriented functionality in the network and at the network level, including content routing, caching, multicast, mobility, data-centric security, and a flexible namespace. Thus, it is a viable solution for supporting Internet of Things (IoT) services without requiring any centralized entity. In this paper, we introduce the lightweight named object solution: a convenient way to represent physical IoT objects in a derived name space, exploiting ICN. We show that this abstraction can: 1) increase the programming simplicity; 2) offer extended functionality, such as augmentation and upgrading, to cope with the "software erosion," and 3) implement a common interaction logic involving mutual function invocation. We present some proof-of-concept implementations of the proposed abstraction dealing with challenging IoT test cases; we also carry out a performance evaluation in a simulated network scenario.
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ISSN:2327-4662
2327-4662
DOI:10.1109/JIOT.2019.2894969