Middleware Group Communication Mechanisms in M2M environments

Abstract: Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communication is a technology that will bring new horizons for the current concept of smart systems. However, efficient M2M communication requires the design of middleware/platform components able to deal with multiple application requirements and heterogeneous wireless environments. In order to address this challenge, this paper proposes the Communication Manager Component (CMC) to integrate the M2M middleware. CMC enables the management of communication mechanisms, such as data-aggregation, sleep-schedule, uplink-schedule and signaling-aggregation, aiming to save energy and to satisfy multiple application data requests. The management is performed dynamically taking into account the applications requests, the base-station overload indicators and the M2M devices’ status (eg energy level, location).