With increasing demand for Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communications, modifying existing Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiple Access (OFDMA) communication systems, such as the Long Term Evolution (LTE) system, to successfully support low data rate M2M devices has became an important issue. In LTE Release 12 and beyond, the reduction of maximum bandwidth, the reduction of transmission power and ...

In order to enable M2M devices to communicate over the existing Internet, Constrained RESTful Environments (CoRE) working group at the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) proposed Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP) as application layer protocol for IP based solutions. This paper presents a survey of the CoAP (Constrained Application Protocol), along with its implementation and evaluatio...

Machine-to-machine (M2M) communications emerge to autonomously operate to link interactions between Internet cyber world and physical systems. We present the technological scenario of M2M communications consisting of wireless infrastructure to cloud, and machine swarm of tremendous devices. Related technologies toward practical realization are explored to complete fundamental understanding and ...

Machine-to-machine communication, M2M, will make up a large portion of the new types of services and use cases that the fifth generation (5G) systems will address. On the one hand, 5G will connect a large number of low-cost and low-energy devices in the context of the Internet of things; on the other hand it will enable critical machine type communication use cases, such as smart factory, autom...

Machine-to-Machine Communication (M2M) is the communications between wireless devices without human interventions. As a fundamental enabler of Internet of Things, M2M is growing fast and implemented in many areas. The number of M2M devices is expected to be extremely large in the future. In most cases they are battery driven and positioned in broad areas so that it would be costly to frequently...

The emergence of machine-to-machine (M2M) technologies as a business opportunity is based on the observation that there are many more machines and objects in the world than people and that an everyday object has more value when it is networked. In this paper, we describe an M2M middleware that we have developed for a facility management application. Facility management is a time and labour-inte...

As an intrinsic part of the Internet of Things (IoT) ecosystem, machine-to-machine (M2M) communications are expected to provide ubiquitous connectivity between machines. Millimeter-wave (mmWave) communication is another promising technology for the future communication systems to alleviate the pressure of scarce spectrum resources. For this reason, in this paper, we consider multi-hop M2M commu...

In recent years, the increased interest in energy conservation and environmental protection, combined with the development of modern communication and computer technology, has resulted in the replacement of distributed heating by central heating in urban areas. This paper proposes a Representational State Transfer (REST) Machine-to-Machine (M2M) gateway for wireless remote monitoring for a dist...

Machine-to-Machine (M2M) involves communication through a wire or wireless network without human intervention. M2M on Cellular network, also defined as Machine Type Communications (MTC) by 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP), has shown great potential in the industry for its long distance wireless advantage. Different from the traditional human to human (H2H) communications, M2M communica...