The Cluster Between Internet of Things and Social Networks: Review and Research Challenges

By A. M. Ortiz, Dina Hussein, Soochang Park, Son N. Han, Noël Crespi. IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 2014

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The cluster between Internet of Things (IoT) and social networks (SNs) enables the connection of people to the ubiquitous computing universe. In this framework, the information coming from the environment is provided by the IoT, and the SN brings the glue to allow human-to-device interactions. This paper explores the novel paradigm for ubiquitous computing beyond IoT, denoted by Social Internet of Things (SIoT). Although there have been early-stage studies in social-driven IoT, they merely use one or some properties of SIoT to improve a number of specific performance variables. Therefore, this paper first addresses a complete view on SIoT and key perspectives to envision the real ubiquitous computing. Thereafter, a literature review is presented along with the evolutionary history of IoT research from Intranet of Things to SIoT. Finally, this paper proposes a generic SIoT architecture and presents a discussion about enabling technologies, research challenges, and open issues.

Subfields: Computer Networks and Communications, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

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Toward Social Internet of Vehicles: Concept, Architecture, and Applications (2015, methodology): “On the other hand, our work is based on emerging Social Internet of Things (SIoT) [6], [7], [31] where things become the social entity rather than their owners, which aligns very well with the vision of smart cities.”
Assessment of the Suitability of Fog Computing in the Context of Internet of Things (2018, background): “Consequently, the performance of IoT is profoundly dependent on the ability of cloud platforms to serve billions of devices and their applications, in real-time [12], [23].”
A Survey on Internet of Things From Industrial Market Perspective (2015, background): “Over the last few years social networking [15] has become popular and widely used.”
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A Vision of IoT: Applications, Challenges, and Opportunities With China Perspective (2014, background): “An open and generic IoT architecture is an integrated solution with interoperability [13], [14].”
Next Generation 5G Wireless Networks: A Comprehensive Survey (2016, background): “Concepts, reviews and challenges of SIoT are presented in [144], [145].”
Context-Aware Computing, Learning, and Big Data in Internet of Things: A Survey (2018, background): “6) Survey of IoT related areas [sensor network, Social IoT (SIoT), and mobile phone sensing] [33]–[36].”