Machine-to-Machine (M2M) paradigm is a novel communication technology under standardization at both the ETSI and the 3GPP. It involves a set of sensors and actuators (M2M devices) communicating with M2M applications via M2M gateways, with no human intervention. For M2M communications trust and privacy are key requirements. This drove us to propose a host identity protocol (HIP) based M2M overla...

Machine-to-machine (M2M) communication or machinetype communication (MTC) is considered an integral part of the socalled Internet of Things. M2M provides ubiquitous connectivity among devices without human intervention. Using cellular networks to provide M2M connectivity presents numerous advantages (coverage, roaming support, interoperability, well developed charging and security solutions amo...

Scheduling the active and idle period of machine type communication devices (MTC) such as RFID tags, sensors and smart meters are significantly important to achieve energy efficiency in the emerging machine to machine (M2M) communication networks, which comprises thousands of resource constrained MTC devices (i.e., low data rate, energy and bandwidth). However, only a few studies exist in the l...

In recent times, machine-to-machine (M2M) communication is considered the most promising solution for revolutionizing future intelligent pervasive applications. The capillary M2M network is a key component of the M2M system, and it should support a data rate that is sufficient to accommodate various vertical applications with limited resources of end devices. This paper presents a joint routing...

In this paper a method to facilitate M2M communication using existing GSM networks is proposed – as M2M devices primarily use SMS as their data bearer, the focus is on increasing the number of devices that can use the associated GSM signaling channels at a time. This is achieved by defining a new class of low mobility, static M2M devices which use a modified physical layer control frame structu...

Machine-to-machine (M2M) communications have attracted great attention from both academia and industry. In this paper, with recent advances in wireless network virtualization and software-defined networking (SDN), we propose a novel framework for M2M communications in software-defined cellular networks with wireless network virtualization. In the proposed framework, according to different funct...

Machine-to-machine (M2M) communications have attracted great attention from both academia and industry. In this paper, with recent advances in wireless network virtualization and software-defined networking (SDN), we propose a novel framework for M2M communications in software-defined cellular networks with wireless network virtualization. In the proposed framework, according to different funct...

This paper explores the convergence of Machine-to-Machine (M2M) networks with Network-Centric Operations (NCO). An overview of the M2M communication paradigm and current standardization efforts regarding architecture are given. It includes an overview of the network-centric networking and analyses the idea of implementing NCO approach to achieve situational awareness and self-synchronization of...

The number of industrial applications relying on the Machine to Machine (M2M) services exposed from physical world has been increasing in recent years. Such M2M services enable communication of devices with the core processes of companies. However, there is a big challenge related to complexity and to application-specific M2M systems called ―vertical silos‖. This paper focuses on reviewing the ...

Internet of things (IoT) is a new paradigm where almost every physical object will be furnished with sensing, communication and processing capabilities that allow them to communicate with other devices possibly via the internet and/or telecommunication networks. Machine to machine (M2M) communication, which is a key enabling technology for the IoT, enables networked devices to exchange informat...