Research Article
A Distributed Control Plane for the Internet of Things Based on a Distributed Hash Table
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-319-04277-0_9, author={Jaime Jim\^{e}nez Bolonio and Manuel Urue\`{o}a and Gonzalo Camarillo}, title={A Distributed Control Plane for the Internet of Things Based on a Distributed Hash Table}, proceedings={Mobile Networks and Management. 5th International Conference, MONAMI 2013, Cork, Ireland, September 23-25, 2013, Revised Selected Papers}, proceedings_a={MONAMI}, year={2014}, month={6}, keywords={Internet of Things (IoT) Peer-to-Peer (P2P) Distributed Hash Table (DHT) REsource Location And Discovery (RELOAD)}, doi={10.1007/978-3-319-04277-0_9} }- Jaime Jiménez Bolonio
Manuel Urueña
Gonzalo Camarillo
Year: 2014
A Distributed Control Plane for the Internet of Things Based on a Distributed Hash Table
MONAMI
Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-04277-0_9
Abstract
As any other communication system, the Internet of Things (IoT) requires a functional control plane. However developing such control plane in a centralized way presents a number of challenges given the multiple stakeholders, the huge number of devices distributed worldwide, their limited connectivity, and specially that most IoT devices are battery-powered and thus must be sleeping most of the time. This paper explores the possibility of employing a distributed control plane for the IoT that leverages the intrinsic scalability and flexibility of peer-to-peer Distributed Hash Tables (DHTs). In particular, it proposes using a so-called “command mailbox” resource to remotely control sleeping sensors and actuators in an asynchronous way, while also solving important issues such as device bootstrapping and security.