Social Internet of Things and New Generation Computing -- A Survey

TL;DR

This survey reviews the development of Social Internet of Things (SIoT), focusing on its applications and integration with new computing models, highlighting research classifications and future research directions.

Contribution

It introduces a two-dimensional framework for classifying SIoT research based on application domains and integration with new computing models.

Findings

Classifies SIoT research by application domain

Analyzes SIoT integration with new computing models

Discusses open research challenges and future directions

Abstract

Social Internet of Things (SIoT) tries to overcome the challenges of Internet of Things (IoT) such as scalability, trust and discovery of resources, by inspiration from social computing. This survey aims to investigate the research done on SIoT from two perspectives including application domain and the integration to the new computing models. For this, a two-dimensional framework is proposed and the projects are investigated, accordingly. The first dimension considers and classifies available research from the application domain perspective and the second dimension performs the same from the integration to new computing models standpoint. The aim is to technically describe SIoT, to classify related research, to foster the dissemination of state-of-the-art, and to discuss open research directions in this field.