Recent technologies have made the life of people more comfortable and more
straightforward than it was before. With the development of information technology, the …

Recently, Internet has evolved into a new generation, called Internet of Things, thus
enabling the connection between the physical and the digital worlds by creating an …

The Internet of Things (IoT) aims at connecting billions of devices in an Internet-like
structure. This gigantic information exchange enables new opportunities and new forms of …

Purpose The main goal of this paper is to study the cloud service discovery mechanisms. In
this paper, the discovery mechanisms are ranked in three major classes: centralized …

Social Internet of Things comes as a new paradigm of Internet of Things to solve the
problems of network discovery, navigability, and service composition. It aims to socialize the …

Abstract The Internet of Things (IoT) has become a hot research topic in recent years to
extend Internet connectivity to physical devices in our day-to-day activities. The high …

Due to the enormous search space, dynamic availability, and restrictions on geographic
positions, achieving a scalable and efficient service discovery mechanism for large-scale …

In Internet of Things (IoT), functionalities of devices are encapsulated as real-world services
to interact with other things or traditional web services to realize the seamless integration …

Pervasive computing environments pose unique service discovery challenges. We have
developed a taxonomy of existing protocols as a basis for analyzing their approaches and …

An emerging trend in many applications is to use resource-constrained wireless devices for
machine-to-machine (M2M) communications. The observed proliferation of wireless …