The 11th International Symposium on Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications (WPMC 2008) ARCHITECTURE DESIGN CONSIDERATIONS FOR THE EVOLUTION OF SENSING AND ACTUATION INFRASTRUCTURES IN A FUTURE INTERNET

The Future Internet will be an inherently cyber-physical system, providing native support for many forms of real world interaction, including sensing and actuation. This will place unique requirements on its architectural design, as a vastly heterogeneous set of stake holders tussling to promote business and social opportunities, while addressing technical and incentive barriers. This paper describes a set of high level architectural models which can be used for including sensing and actuation services into the Future Internet. As such architectures can only be implemented through the cooperation of a wide variety of business actors, the ultimate design will not be under the control of any single entity. Tussles will be played out during the lifecycle of the system, which will cause an evolution of the approach to specific functions. We therefore apply an analysis of these tussles to derive architectural boundaries and interfaces which will allow the system to evolve through these tussles, but without breaking the cohesion of the overall architecture.