Unified Connectivity of IoT Devices through Abstraction of Application Protocols
Dessislava Petrova‐Antonova, Georgi Andreev, Sylvia Ilieva · 2017
Internet of Things comes with significant benefits in human live and work, but it brings plenty of challenges. Providing security in the IoT network is a primary priority. The connected devices and the data they exchange need to be protected from vulnerabilities and unauthorized access. The full adoption of IoT is suppressed by privacy considerations and legal issues. In addition, the lack of interoperability support and standards prevents devices to communicate in a uniform manner in order to provide valuable services for users and industry. The fast growth of the technologies leads to production of wide variety of devices based on different application protocols that are hard to be connected without usage of intermediators. The paper addresses IoT challenges by proposing a solution for unified connectivity of devices through abstraction of the application protocol. The solution is implemented as a core layer of framework for integration of short range devices.