Barakat, Basel; Keates, Simeon; Wassell, Ian J. and Arshad, Kamran. 2021. Modelling IoT devices communication employing representative operation modes to reveal traffic generation characteristics. International Journal of Parallel, Emergent and Distributed Systems, 36(2), pp. 117-129. ISSN 1744-5760 [Article]

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Several traffic models for the Internet of Things (IoT) have been proposed in the literature. However, they can be considered as heuristic models since they only reflect the stochastic characteristic of the generated traffic. In this paper, we propose a model to represent the communication of IoT devices. The model was used to obtain the traffic generated by the devices. Therefore, the proposed model is able to capture a wider understanding of device behaviour than existing, state-of-the-art traffic models. The proposed model illustrates the behaviour of Machine-to-Machine uplink communication in a network with multiple-access limited information capacity shared channels. In this paper, we analysed the number of transmitted packets using the traffic model extracted from our proposed communication model and compared it with the state-of-the-art traffic models using simulations. The simulation results show that the proposed model has significantly higher accuracy in estimating the number of transmitted packets compared with the current models in the literature.

Item Type:	Article
Identification Number (DOI):	https://doi.org/10.1080/17445760.2019.1649402
Additional Information:	“This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in the International Journal of Parallel, Emergent and Distributed Systems on 21 August 2019, available at: https://doi.org/ 10.1080/17445760.2019.1649402. It is deposited under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.”
Keywords:	Internet of Things Communication; Communication System Traffic; Traffic Model; Stochastic Process
Departments, Centres and Research Units:	Computing
Dates:	Date Event 10 July 2019 Accepted 21 August 2019 Published Online 2021 Published
Item ID:	38191
Date Deposited:	30 Jan 2025 17:18
Last Modified:	31 Jan 2025 08:47
Peer Reviewed:	Yes, this version has been peer-reviewed.
URI:	https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/38191

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