Information Dissemination With Service-Oriented Incentive Mechanism in Industrial Internet of Things

Abstract

As one of the essential paradigms of Industrial 4.0, the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) challenges existing data management and information services by supporting computational-intensive applications, in which devices share and receive information through interactions under resource constraints. When there exist diverse service requirements of IIoT applications, information dissemination will be more likely driven by service-oriented incentives. In this article, a novel information dissemination process with the service-oriented incentive mechanism is analyzed and modeled in IIoT, which depicts the dynamical evolution of IIoT devices’ interactions. In particular, the characteristics of service-oriented activating and dissemination degenerating are considered due to the unique capability of IIoT devices. Extensive theoretical and simulation results verify the dynamical behaviors of information dissemination, including the propagation threshold, equilibrium, and stability. In addition, comparative simulations have demonstrated the service-oriented incentive mechanism further expands information diffusion by driving the participation of IIoT devices.