Efficient Schemes for Managing Internet of Things Devices/Systems

物联网 (IoT) 是一种新兴范例，允许通过互联网以及机器对机器 (M2M) 和人对机器 (H2M) 通信来控制物理世界。智能设备和移动应用程序的激增为建设更高效、更具生产力和可持续发展的社会创造了重大机遇。如今，我们周围的大多数设备要么已连接到物联网，要么即将连接到物联网，其中许多设备的计算能力和存储容量有限。对于当前基于云的集中式解决方案来说，满足物联网系统的高速数据处理和更短响应时间的要求可能具有挑战性。由于所有物联网设备共享信息，因此还需要保护使用这些设备的个人用户的隐私。雾或边缘计算范式允许使计算资源和应用程序服务更接近数据生成和操作的位置，可以减少传输到云进行处理和分析的数据量，从而减少响应时间，同时提高隐私和安全性。拟议的研究将开发有效的方案，通过雾或边缘计算的优势，结合软件定义网络，为多个物联网领域（即智能城市、车辆网络、智能电网、无线传感器网络、社交网络等）的服务管理物联网设备，并解决一些一般性问题，例如安全、隐私以及雾设备之间以及雾与云之间的数据和服务迁移的信任。该提案还将解决在开发节能和可持续基础设施、协议和未来应用中可能出现的问题和挑战。

The Internet of Things (IoT) is an emerging paradigm that allows the control of the physical world via the Internet and both machine-to-machine (M2M) and human-to-machine (H2M) communication. The proliferation of smart devices and mobile applications has created significant opportunities for a more efficient, productive, and sustainable society. Nowadays, most devices around us are either connected to the IoT or are about to be, many of which have limited computational capability and storage capacity. Meeting high-speed data processing and shorter response time requirements of IoT systems can be challenging with current centralized cloud-based solutions. With all the IoT devices sharing information, there is also the need to protect the privacy of individual users who are using these devices. Fog or edge computing paradigm that allows bringing computing resources and application services closer to where the data is being generated and acted upon can reduce the amount of data transferred to the cloud for processing and analysis, thus reducing response time while improving privacy and security. The proposed research will develop efficient schemes for managing the IoT devices through fog or edge computing advantages, coupled with software-defined networking, for services in several IoT domains (i.e., smart cities, vehicular networks, smart grids, wireless sensor networks, social networks, etc.), and address some general issues such as security, privacy, and trust with data and service migration among fog devices and between fog and cloud. This proposal will also address the issues and challenges that may arise in developing energy efficient and sustainable infrastructures, protocols, and future applications.