Logistic processes such as fleet management and tracking of assets deeply rely on Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communication services. In recent years, M2M communication is being considered as one of the most technologies that will be dominating future intelligent pervasive applications. The wide application area of mobile M2M communications includes logistics, smart metering, e-healthcare, surveil...

Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communication refers to communication among machines without or with only limited human intervention. The paper deals with context-awareness in M2M communication and proposes rich presence information as a concept to address context information in a multi-agent system supporting networking of machines. Rich Presence Information Data (RPID) extensions suitable for M2M ar...

Recently, the development of Machine to Machine (M2M) communication has been largely accomplished in a variety of fields including smart home. In M2M communication, the role of sensor node is only limited to gather data and send them to upper application layers. In this research, the limited role of the sensor node in traditional M2M communication is improved in order for the sensor node to mak...

In recent years, we have witnessed a continuous increase in the number of embedded devices with communication capabilities that are changing the way we live, work and play. Smart grids, remote monitoring and control of all kinds of consumer devices and industrial equipment, vehicular telematics and e-health devices, are some examples of this revolution. The communication between those devices (...

In addition to human-to-human (H2H) and machine-to-human (M2H) communications, an emerging technology enabling full mechanical automation that may change living styles is being developed. Communications among machine-type devices are known as machine-to-machine (M2M) communications. Current market penetration and recent predictions confirm that M2M system deployments are increasing exponentiall...

Currently the Long Term Evolution (LTE) System is an internationally recognized mobile communication standard for 4G. With the advent of Machine to machine (M2M) devices and network capability, a suitable uplink scheduling strategy is strongly needed for such systems. Scheduling method is one of the hot topics among current researches for M2M over LTE. It is found that there are major differenc...

Efficient management of scarce access network resources for growing volume of Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communications play an important role in a Long Term Evolution (LTE) network. Understanding the communication requirements of machine-to-machine (M2M) services, and linking them to technical, as well as economic aspects, is a crucial step towards “smarter” charging of such services. We discuss...

This paper introduces an efficient machine-to-machine (M2M) communication model based on 4G cellular systems. M2M terminals are capable of establishing Ad Hoc clusters wherever they are close enough. It is also possible to extend the cellular coverage for M2M terminals through multi-hop Ad Hoc connections. The M2M terminal structure is proposed accordingly to meet the mass production and securi...

The next generation of communication systems, which is commonly referred to as 5G, is expected to support, besides the traditional voice and data services, new communication paradigms, such as Internet of Things (IoT) and Machine-to-Machine (M2M) services, which involve communication between Machine-Type Devices (MTDs) in a fully automated fashion, thus, without or with minimal human interventi...

Machine-to-Machine (M2M) systems and technologies currently constitute a hot topic in the field of Information and Communication Technology (ICT), and reflect an increasing need for technologies enabling applications in diverse areas, as well as interactions between continuously increasing numbers of connected devices. Important participants in making M2M systems widely used and applicable in n...