Paper Info
Title
How often social objects meet each other? Analysis of the properties of a social network of IoT devices based on real data.
Abstract
Internet of Things (IoT) applications will be based on the interactions between smart objects. In many applications such interactions are possible (or meaningful) when objects are close to each others, i.e., there is a co-presence. Unfortunately, to date there are no data traces providing information about the co-presence of smart objects. Indeed, several mobility traces reporting humans' movements are available, but none of them contains information about the interactions between their objects. Objective of the work reported in this paper is to fill this gap. To this purpose, we start from user mobility patterns available from several datasets. We associate to each user a set of objects, based on a survey we have carried out over around 450 users. Accordingly, we analyze the statistics about the co-presence of objects. We carry out our analysis by exploiting the tools developed for the analysis of complex networks. Our objective is to identify the objects which are likely to play a key role in the interactions between smart objects in the IoT.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2013
IEEE Global Communications Conference
IoT,social graph,mobility data set
Field
DocType
ISSN
World Wide Web,Social network,Social objects,Computer science,Internet of Things,Computer network,Complex network,Smart objects
Conference
2334-0983
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
6
0.53
7
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Hamid Zargari Asl160.53
Antonio Iera22745173.42
Luigi Atzori32564158.26
Giacomo Morabito42682152.19