Suitability of self-organizing service composition approach for smart healthcare ecosystem: A study

Abstract

Future IoT systems will be deployed in open environments where the functionality of millions of IoT devices that are heterogeneous will be abstracted. In such a large scale system manual service composition is not feasible and often erroneous. A self-organizing service composition is a well known approach to deal with the problems in IoT systems. In a self-organizing service composition, the service composition is a runtime and autonomous process and human intervention is minimal. The atomic components will interact among themselves in a decentralized manner to form complex composites according to a set of self-organizing rules. The features of a self-organizing software composition are aptly suitable for the IoT domain. Smart healthcare has provided affordable healthcare for patients and enables them to self manage emergencies. This paper aims to establish the suitability of a self-organizing service composition for the smart healthcare ecosystem with special focus on real time monitoring applications.