The advent of M2M communication brings with it numerous challenges, including those in security, that traditional communication models have not yet addressed. Particularly, due to their inherent un-guarded, low cost and mass-deployed nature, M2M devices, and wireless communication architectures and solutions for such devices, would invite new threats in security. These threats may not be fully ...

In a previous work, we build an M2M overlay network over the Internet in order to ensure private communication between M2M devices, M2M gateway and M2M applications. We propose in this paper to add the autonomic management of this overlay network. We add the self-healing and self-optimization capabilities to the M2M gateway. The M2M gateway is able to detect failures in the overlay path and rec...

All over the world, road congestion is among the most prevalent transport challenges usually in urban environments which not only increases fuel consumption and emission of harmful gases, but also causes stress for the drivers. Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) enables a better use of the infrastructure by connecting vehicles to other vehicles as well as infrastructure and thus delivers a...

Machine-to-machine (M2M) communication is of increasing importance in industry due to novel applications, i.e., smart metering or tracking devices in the logistics domain. These applications provoke new requirements for mobile phone networks, which have to be adapted in order to meet these future requirements. Hence, reconfiguration of such networks depending on M2M application scenarios is hig...

For the practical simulation and performance evaluation of mobile-to-mobile (M2M) communication systems, it is desirable to develop accurate M2M channel simulation models for more realistic scenarios of non-isotropic scattering. In this paper, by using a ‘double-ring’ concept to describe M2M non-isotropic scattering environments, we propose new deterministic and stochastic sum-of-sinusoids (SoS...

In this paper, we introduce how to write M2M applications by using INI, a programming language specified and implemented by ourselves that supports event-based style. With event-based programming, all M2M communication can be handled and scheduled. Programmers may use existing built-in events or define their own events. We apply our approach in a real M2M gateway, which allows gathering and exc...

Machine-to-machine communication (M2M) technology enables large-scale device communication and networking, including home devices and appliances. A critical issue for home M2M networks is how to efficiently integrate existing home consumer devices and appliances into an IP-based wireless M2M network with least modifications. Due to its popularity and widespread use in closed spaces, Wi-Fi is a ...

Machine to Machine (M2M) communication is gathering momentum. Many network operators deem that the future of the business on data transmission lies on M2M. In parallel, the application of robotics is progressively becoming more widespread. Traditionally, robotics has only been applied to industrial environments, but lately some more exoteric (e.g. domestic) robots have arisen. Anyhow, those rob...

Machine to machine (M2M) communication networks consist of thousands of low cost, low energy, low computational power and memory sensors nodes. Due to the autonomous monitoring, self organization, low power consumptions and remote accessibility of sensors, M2M communication networks gain momentum in environmental monitoring, pollution detection, agriculture, disasters monitoring and many simila...

Cellular network based Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communications have been growing rapidly in recent years, being used in a wide range of services such as security, metering, health, remote control, tracking and so on. A critical issue that needs to be considered in M2M communications is the energy efficiency, typically the machines are powered by batteries of low capacity and it is important to ...