Internet of Things (IoT): Research, Simulators, and Testbeds
Internet of Things (IoT): Research, Simulators, and Testbeds
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物联网 (IoT)：研究、模拟器和测试台
DOI：
10.1109/jiot.2017.2786639
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发表时间：
2018-06-01
影响因子：
10.6
通讯作者：
Zeadally, Sherali
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作者：
Chernyshev, Maxim;Baig, Zubair;Zeadally, Sherali
物联网（IoT）的愿景越来越多地被实现，以方便和高效的人类生活。为了使用最合适的工具和技术进行有效的物联网研究，我们讨论了物联网领域的最新研究趋势沿着物联网研究社区目前面临的挑战。一些现有和新兴的物联网研究领域，如轻量级节能协议开发、对象认知和智能，以及对强大的安全和隐私机制的迫切需求，将继续成为物联网的重要研究领域。物联网研究可能是一个具有挑战性的过程，通过使用模拟器和测试平台来开发和验证初始概念验证和后续原型，跨越虚拟和物理领域。为了支持研究人员规划物联网研究活动，我们对现有的模拟工具进行了比较分析，这些工具根据物联网架构层的覆盖范围进行了分类。我们比较了研究人员用于检查物理物联网原型的现有大规模物联网测试平台。最后，我们讨论了当前物联网模拟器和测试平台的几个开放性挑战，这些挑战需要物联网研究社区来解决，以进行大规模，强大和有效的物联网模拟和原型评估。
The Internet of Things (IoT) vision is increasingly being realized to facilitate convenient and efficient human living. To conduct effective IoT research using the most appropriate tools and techniques, we discuss recent research trends in the IoT area along with current challenges faced by the IoT research community. Several existing and emerging IoT research areas such as lightweight energy-efficient protocol development, object cognition and intelligence, as well as the critical need for robust security and privacy mechanisms will continue to be significant fields of research for IoT. IoT research can be a challenging process spanning both virtual and physical domains through the use of simulators and testbeds to develop and validate the initial proof-of-concepts and subsequent prototypes. To support researchers in planning IoT research activities, we present a comparative analysis of existing simulation tools categorized based on the scope of coverage of the IoT architecture layers. We compare existing large-scale IoT testbeds that have been adopted by researchers for examining the physical IoT prototypes. Finally, we discuss several open challenges of current IoT simulators and testbeds that need to be addressed by the IoT research community to conduct large-scale, robust and effective IoT simulation, and prototype evaluations.