Enhancing Lightweight M2M Operations for Managing IoT Gateways
Bilhanan Silverajan, Mert Ocak, Jaime Jimenez, Antti Kolehmainen · 2016
Heterogeneity in constrained networks and gateways is perhaps one of the single greatest challenges facing end-to-end management of devices and networks in the IoT. Today, the Lightweight M2M (LWM2M) protocol, leveraged on open Internet standards, has become a strong contender for REST-based IoT management. However, significant challenges exist for remote gateway management, particularly for proxies and exposing proprietary or vendor-specific operations. This paper presents some effective solutions in LWM2M for overcoming these challenges, using object modelling and linking. The presented approaches are also validated with prototypes.