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Special issue on management of the Internet of things and big data
Author(s) -
Mongay Batalla Jordi,
Mastorakis George,
Mavromoustakis Constandinos X.
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
international journal of network management
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.373
H-Index - 28
eISSN - 1099-1190
pISSN - 1055-7148
DOI - 10.1002/nem.1971
Subject(s) - computer science , cloud computing , big data , the internet , authentication (law) , wireless sensor network , computer security , world wide web , computer network , operating system
The future of the all‐connected model depends on the effective solution to a number of technical challenges including sensor capabilities improvement and sensor miniaturization, Big Data processing and efficient remote data management (by introducing new remote management‐oriented architectures), as well as the open and secure composition of processes, which may be easily implemented into new scenarios. Some initiatives try to build all‐connected scenarios from the scratch (eg, some infrastructures for smart cities proposed in China), but the trend is to group together specific use cases of the Internet of Things (IoT), cloud computing, and all‐as‐ a‐service communication frameworks. The backbone of the all‐connected paradigm is the sum of the existing technologies: fiber and mobile high‐speed access to the Internet, GPS, multimedia devices (video cameras and end users' terminals), wired and wireless sensor networks, and cloud computing. The management should be distributed at different layers. Privacy and authorization and authentication should be managed at the application level (ie, communication between processes). Instead, other aspects of security should be provided (as much as possible) at the network level due to rather low complexity required for sensors and things. To this end, this special issue of the International Journal on Network Management (IJNM) on “Management of the Internet of Things and Big Data” aims at discovering (1) novel management procedures for M2M communication extended to the use of Internet big data analysis, (2) new management tools for improving the communication of the IoT and the cloud, including new APIs and Web services, and (3) novel mechanisms for managing big data into IoT environments including all the contexts of security (confidentiality/privacy, integrity, authenticity, nonrepudiation, availability, and authorization) related to IoT. At last, a parallel goal of this special issue is to understand the potential technical limitations for a full integration of big data into IoT. A total of 21 submissions were received for this special issue. After extensive review and discussion, 6 papers were finally selected for publication. All the papers passed through a double revision and refinement process for ensuring that all the reviewers' suggestions were fully integrated in the manuscripts. Stergiou and Psannis present a survey of the newest research on the management of IoT and big data in their paper