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Internet of Things: challenges and research opportunities

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Faster development of sensor and network technologies is facilitating immense deployment of Internet of Things (IoT) towards creating a smart world. In IoT, a massive number of heterogeneous resource–constraint devices communicate with each other without any human intervention and generate a huge amount of data. Unique research challenges posed by IoT are fascinating the research community. This paper presents some of the critical issues along with state of the art solutions towards them. In-depth discussion is provided on various key issues like heterogeneity and interoperability, scalability, QoS, and security. Directions for further researches in those areas are also pointed out.

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Hussain, M.I. Internet of Things: challenges and research opportunities. CSIT 5, 87–95 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40012-016-0136-6

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