Wireless Machine-to-Machine Networks

Jianhua He,Hsiao-Hwa Chen,Lin Bai,Zhong Fan,Yan Zhang

doi:10.1155/2012/535927

Abstract

1 School of Electronics and Applied Science, Aston University, Birmingham B4 7ET, UK 2Simula Research Laboratory, Fornebu, 1325 Lysaker, Norway 3Telecommunications Research Laboratory, Toshiba Research Europe Ltd., Bristol BS1 4ND, UK 4Department of Engineering Science, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan City 70101, Taiwan 5School of Electronic and Information Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China

Highlights

Over the few years there will be a huge increase in the number of machines enabled by M2M technology
Sensor nodes in wireless M2M networks could be connected by a wide range of wireless network technologies including cellular networks, WPAN, RFID, Wi-Fi, Wimax, and satellite networks
These heterogeneous network technologies combined with the low-power machine devices and diverse QoS requirements of M2M applications present big challenges to the wireless M2M networks, including support of possibly huge number of M2M devices, supporting a wide range of M2M applications with significantly different traffic patterns and QoS requirements, supporting different types of sensors with low power and low mobility

Summary

Introduction

Over the few years there will be a huge increase in the number of machines enabled by M2M technology. The development of wireless M2M networks supporting machine devices in that scale is pivotal to the success of M2M. These heterogeneous network technologies combined with the low-power machine devices and diverse QoS requirements of M2M applications present big challenges to the wireless M2M networks, including support of possibly huge number (up to billions) of M2M devices, supporting a wide range of M2M applications with significantly different traffic patterns and QoS requirements, supporting different types of sensors with low power and low mobility.

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