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This paper presents the design and implementation guidelines of thing federation-as-a-service. The large and growing number of things compliant with the Internet-of-Things (IoT) principles need to be “harnessed” so, that, things’ collective over individual behaviors prevail. A federation gathers necessary things together according to the needs and requirements of the situation that this federation is tasked to handle. Two types of federations exist: planned whose things are all known at design-time and ad-hoc whose things are known after a competitive selection at run-time. In this paper, federations handle situations about emergency services that involve different stakeholders with different backgrounds raising the complexity of ensuring a successful delivery of these services. A system for patient emergency transfer following a tunnel closure is implemented demonstrating the technical doability of thing federation-as-a-service.
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QoT is similar to Quality-of-Service (QoS) that is adopted in other disciplines like service computing [9] and uses non-functional properties like reliability and latency.
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With the first three defining the essence of cloud computing.
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A topic is a UTF-8 String that MQTT broker uses to decide on which client receive which message.
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Maamar, Z. et al. (2018). Thing Federation as a Service: Foundations and Demonstration. In: Abdelwahed, E., Bellatreche, L., Golfarelli, M., Méry, D., Ordonez, C. (eds) Model and Data Engineering. MEDI 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11163. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00856-7_12
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