Internet of Things (IoT), Future Networks (FN) and the Economics of Virtual Networks

Author(s):  
Guenter Knieps
2017 ◽  
Vol 18 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 240-255 ◽  
Author(s):  
Günter Knieps

The Internet of Things (IoT) gains momentum. Developments regarding smart grids, intelligent transportation systems, and low-power networks for smart cities constitute significant drivers in the evolution of network industries. IoT creates an array of new requirements for information and communications technology (ICT) data transmission: In addition to real-time and data geopositioning, new service characteristics result from the change of the traditional sender–receiver perspective of Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) to content relevancy for many users (e.g. cloud computing) and dynamic changes of the state of devices. The future development and success of IoT hinges critically on the provision of heterogeneous quality of service (QoS) requirements which cannot be provided by best-effort TCP/IP Internet. It is thus not surprising that both in the US and the EU network neutrality regulations are currently being reconsidered. Alternative network logistics (virtual networks) dealing with heterogeneous QoS requirements of network traffic may require fundamental deviations from traditional Internet architectures. Corresponding logistics operating over joint physical infrastructures gain increasing attention under the heading of future networks (FNs). The goal of this article is to focus on the economic mechanisms of how the potentials of QoS differentiation in the context of FNs can be fully exploited and incentivized within innovative all-IP-based QoS traffic architectures.


2009 ◽  
Vol 50 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Oliver P. Waldhorst ◽  
Christian Blankenhorn ◽  
Dirk Haage ◽  
Ralph Holz ◽  
Gerald G Koch ◽  
...  

AbstractNovel Internet applications demand global availability of complex services that can adapt dynamically to application requirements. At the same time, pervasive Internet usage and heterogeneous access technologies impose new challenges for service deployment. We present Spontaneous Virtual Networks (SpoVNet), a methodology that enables easy development of new services with transparent support for mobility, multi-homing, and heterogeneous environments. This article presents the overlay-based architecture of SpoVNet that supports the spontaneous deployment of new services as well as a seamless transition towards future networks. SpoVNet´s architecture offers support for the underlay aware adaptation of overlays by the use of cross-layer information. In the context of two exemplary services like a group communication service and an event service as well as two demanding applications – a realtime online game and a video streaming application – we illustrate how SpoVNet is of value in establishing services and applications for the Next Generation Internet.


2020 ◽  
Vol 179 ◽  
pp. 107349 ◽  
Author(s):  
Godfrey Kibalya ◽  
Joan Serrat ◽  
Juan-Luis Gorricho ◽  
Haipeng Yao ◽  
Peiying Zhang

2013 ◽  
Vol 278-280 ◽  
pp. 2012-2015
Author(s):  
Lian Shi Lin ◽  
Qing Hu ◽  
Yu Ping Qui

The Internet of things is a massive electronic equipment with internet interconnection of large scale virtual networks, including RFID, sensor and actuator electronic devices by the internet interconnection. In order to solve internet of things architecture intelligent refrigerator key technologies, The paper had discussed the internet of things architecture intelligent refrigerator definition, characteristic as well as reference architecture, focused on analysis intelligent refrigerator information space definition, information quantification method and mobile platform equipment internet of things key technology main problems and corresponding solution ways.


Internet of Things aims to automate and add intelligence into existing processes by introducing constrained devices such as sensors and actuators. These constrained devices lack in computation and memory resources and are usually battery powered for ease of deployments. Due to their limited capabilities, the constrained devices usually host proprietary protocols, platforms, data formats and data structures for communications and therefore, are unable to communicate with devices from different vendors. This inability leads to interoperability issues in Internet of Things which, is in fact against the spirit of Internet of things which, envisions interconnection of billions of devices and hence, results in an isolated, vendor-locked and close-loop deployments of IoT solutions. Various approaches have been made by the industry and academia to resolve the interoperability issues amongst constrained devices. However, majority of the solutions are at different layers of the communication stack but do not provide a holistic solution for the problem. In more recent research, there have been theoretical proposals to virtualize constrained devices to abstract their data so that its always available to applications. We have adopted this technique in our research to virtualize the entire Internet of Things network so that virtual TCP/IP based protocols can operate on virtual networks for enabling interoperability. This paper proposes the operations of the Constrained Device Virtualization Algorithm and then simulates it in CloudSIM to derive performance results. The paper further highlights open issues for future research in this area.


Author(s):  
В.А. Нетес

Представлены решения, относящиеся к поколению пост-NGN: Будущие сети, сети 5G, программно-конфигурируемые сети (SDN), облачные вычисления, интернет вещей, на основе которых предполагается создавать информационную инфраструктуру цифровой экономики. Рассмотрены их характерные особенности, влияющие на обеспечение надежности при построении и эксплуатации сетей связи, связанные с ними проблемы и возможные пути их решения. The article considers the post-NGN solutions (future networks, 5G networks, software-defined networks (SDN), cloud computing and the Internet of Things), on the basis of which it is planned to create an information infrastructure for the digital economy. Their characteristic features that affect the reliability of the construction and operation of communication networks are considered.


Author(s):  
Orfefs Voutyras ◽  
Panagiotis Bourelos ◽  
Spyridon Gogouvitis ◽  
Dimosthenis Kyriazis ◽  
Theodora Varvarigou

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