Abstract
In the Internet of Things (IoT), billions of physical devices, distributed over a large geographic area, provide a near real-time state of the world. These devices’ capabilities can be abstracted as IoT services and delivered to users in a demand-driven way. In such a dynamic large-scale environment, a service provider who supports a service level agreement (SLA) can have a comprehensive competitive edge in terms of service quality management, service customization, optimized resource allocation, and trustworthiness. However, there is no consistent way of drafting an SLA with respect to describing heterogeneous IoT services, which obstructs automatic service selection, SLA negotiation, and SLA monitoring. In this paper, we propose an ontology, WIoT-SLA, to achieve semantic interoperability. We combine IoT service properties with two prominent web service SLA specifications: WS-Agreement and WSLA, to take advantage of their complementary features. This ontology is used to formalize the SLAs and SLA negotiation offers, which further facilitates the service selection and automatic SLA negotiation. It can also be used by a monitoring engine to detect SLA violations by providing the semantics of service level objectives (SLOs) and quality metrics. To evaluate our work, a prototype is implemented to demonstrate its feasibility and efficiency.
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