Leveraging upon standards to build the Internet of Things

Date
2012-11-16
Authors
Hoebeke, Jeroen
Carels, David
Ishaq, Isam
Ketema, Girum
Rossey, Jen
De Poorter, Eli
Moerman, Ingrid
Demeester, Piet
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Abstract
Smart embedded objects will become an important part of what is called the Internet of Things. However, the integration of embedded devices into the Internet introduces several challenges, since many of the existing Internet technologies and protocols were not designed for this class of devices. In the past few years, there were many efforts to enable the extension of Internet technologies to constrained devices. Initially, this resulted in proprietary protocols and architectures. Later, the integration of constrained devices into the Internet was embraced by IETF, moving towards standardized IP-based protocols. Long time, most efforts were focusing on the networking layer. More recently, the IETF CoRE working group started working on an embedded counterpart of HTTP, allowing the integration of constrained devices into existing service networks. In this paper, we will briefly review the history of integrating constrained devices into the Internet, with a prime focus on the IETF standardization work in the ROLL and CoRE working groups. This is further complemented with some research results that illustrate how these novel technologies can be extended or used to tackle other problems.
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Keywords
Internet of Things , resource-constrained devices , IETF ROLL , IETF CoRE , RPL , CoAP , Web of Things , standardization , sensors , Protocols , Web services , routing
Citation
Hoebeke, Jeroen, David Carels, Isam Ishaq, Girum Ketema, Jen Rossey, Eli Depoorter, Ingrid Moerman, and Piet Demeester. "Leveraging upon standards to build the Internet of Things." In Communications and Vehicular Technology in the Benelux (SCVT), 2012 IEEE 19th Symposium on, pp. 1-6. IEEE, 2012.