Technical Report: Rapid Reviews on Engineering of Internet of Things Software Systems

TL;DR

This paper presents rapid reviews on IoT software systems, introducing a meta-protocol to analyze six key facets and addressing security challenges in IoT.

Contribution

It introduces a generic meta-protocol for systematically reviewing IoT facets and applies it to six key areas, including security.

Findings

Detailed meta-protocol for IoT review

Insights into connectivity, behavior, and security challenges

Framework for future IoT research and assessment

Abstract

We conducted a set of Rapid Reviews to characterize Internet of Things facets. We formatted a generic meta-protocol that was instantiated for each of the six facets presented (Connectivity, Things, Behavior, Smartness, Interactivity, and Environment)and considering the issue of Security, one of the most important and frequent challenges in the context of IoT. The meta-protocol is detailed and the results of each review are presented.