leading to the commercialization of different heterogeneous devices. In order to bridge the
gap among these heterogeneous devices, in some of the most common IoT use cases-eg,
smart home, smart buildings, etc.-the presence of a gateway as an enabler of interoperability
is required. In this paper, we introduce the concept of a Gateway-as-a-Service (GaaS), a
lightweight device that can be shared between different users thanks to the use of …