An M2M gateway-centric architecture for autonomic healing and optimising of machine-to-machine overlay networks. (2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Dhraief, Amine; Belghith, Abdelfettah; Mathkour, Hassan; Drira, Khalil
• Is Part Of: International journal of ad hoc and ubiquitous computing. Volume 26:Number 1(2017)
• Page Start: 12
• Page End: 28
• Publication Date: 2017
• Subjects: M2M -- machine-to-machine -- M2M gateway -- overlay network -- autonomic management -- HIP -- host identity protocal -- REAP -- reachability protocol -- OMNeT++; Ubiquitous computing -- Periodicals; Embedded computer systems -- Periodicals; Electronic data processing -- Distributed processing -- Periodicals; Wireless communication systems -- Periodicals; Computer architecture -- Periodicals; 004.2
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1743-8225

Abstract

The machine-to-machine (M2M) technology, is expected to be one of the most promising revenue-generating services. However, to ensure the wide spread of this technology, M2M communications should be secure, fault-tolerant and self-managed. In this work, we add to the M2M gateway the self-healing and self-optimising autonomic capabilities. We couple at the M2M gateway level the host identity protocol (HIP) with the reachability protocol (REAP). REAP enables a selfhealed M2M communication as it detects possible failures and rehomes an M2M session to a new overlay path. We modify REAP to ensure self-optimised M2M communications. REAP continuously monitors M2M overlay paths and always selects the best available ones. We implement our solution on the OMNeT++ simulator. Results show that M2M sessions effectively resume after an outage. Results also highlight that M2M sessions autonomically select the best available M2M overlay paths.