Trustworthy communication and efficient service search in social internet of things

Abstract

The Internet of Things is a many vision one paradigm technology that connects electrical electronic and non electrical objects around us to provide seamless communication and contextual services The smart objects through heterogeneous communication protocols play an active role in information business and social processes Social Networks is another revolutionary technology that results in a network of voluminous social interactions and newlinepersonal relationships The integration of Social Networks and the Internet of Things has led to a new paradigm known as Social Internet of Things (SIoT) SIoT is defined as an interconnected social network of smart objects Objects in SIoT are not only smarter but also socially conscious Objects autonomously collaborate with each other via owners leading to discovery selection and composition of services The Internet is populated with trillions of objects and social network of objects are prominent solutions to identify publish services and discover competent resources to implement the services In the recent past SIoT has opened copious research avenues in the field of agriculture logistics automation intelligent buildings transportation etc Establishing a SIoT environment has numerous research challenges namely security privacy trust service management fault tolerance energy management semantic and context management Measures and mechanisms to identify malicious objects guarantee reliable communication identify SIoT communities efficient service discovery and flexible access of services inside and outside the SIoT communities are crucial. newline newline