Future directions for providing better IoT infrastructure
Márcio Miguel Gomes, Rodrigo da Rosa Righi, Cristiano André da Costa · 2014
Internet of Things (IoT) supports a connection between objects and humans, enabling the ubiquitous computing in our daily lives. Future research directions in IoT infrastructure should consider real-time communication and scalability to provide a better experience to the users. We justify this sentence by developing an IoT micro-benchmark, which was evaluated over a real IoT middleware. Considering the observed gaps, this article describes the ideas on redesigning the IoT infrastructure, not imposing any modifications in the users' source code. The modeling combines cloud virtualization and elasticity, service decomposition and multithreading programming. The scientific contribution of the article consists of both a novel IoT infrastructure and the algorithms to control the functioning and scalability of each component.