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Internet of Things: Objectives and Scientific Challenges

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The Internet of Things (IoT) is aimed at enabling the interconnection and integration of the physical world and the cyber space. It represents the trend of future networking, and leads the third wave of the IT industry revolution. In this article, we first introduce some background and related technologies of IoT and discuss the concepts and objectives of IoT. Then, we present the challenges and key scientific problems involved in IoT development. Moreover, we introduce the current research project supported by the National Basic Research Program of China (973 Program). Finally, we outline future research directions.

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  1. Beijing Key Lab of Intelligent Telecommunications Software and Multimedia, School of Computer Science, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, 100876, China

    Hua-Dong Ma (Member, CCF, ACM, IEEE)

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This work is supported by the National Basic Research 973 Program of China under Grant No. 2011CB302701, the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No. 60833009, and the National Natural Science Foundation for Distinguished Young Scientists of China under Grant No. 60925010.

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Ma, HD. Internet of Things: Objectives and Scientific Challenges. J. Comput. Sci. Technol. 26, 919–924 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11390-011-1189-5

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