Architecting Information Centric ETSI-M2M systems

TL;DR

This paper proposes an overlay layer based on Information Centric Networking to enhance the scalability, fault tolerance, and flexibility of ETSI-M2M architectures for heterogeneous M2M systems.

Contribution

It introduces an overlay service layer leveraging ICN principles to improve existing ETSI-M2M architecture's performance and adaptability.

Findings

Preliminary performance assessments show potential benefits.

Use cases demonstrate enhanced flexibility.

Design addresses scalability and fault tolerance issues.

Abstract

The European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) released a set of specifications to define a restful architecture for enabling seamless service provisioning across heterogeneous Machine-to-Machine (M2M) systems. The current version of this architecture is strongly centralized, thus requiring new enhancements to its scalability, fault tolerance, and flexibility. To bridge this gap, herein it is presented an Overlay Service Capability Layer, based on Information Centric Networking design. Key features, example use cases and preliminary performance assessments are also discussed to highlight the potential of our approach.