Research Area:  Internet of Things

Abstract:

The Internet of Things-based systems and software allow computations anywhere at any time by interconnecting individuals, networks, services, computers and artefacts that allow autonomous systems to form digitized communities. As the blueprint for software-intensive applications, and software architecture that precise the complexity of a network’s planning, development, and changing phases to effectively and efficiently build complex IoT-driven applications. In any case, there exists no comprehensive analysis in the state of the research on the adoption of MSA for IoT systems. This study effort is needed to explore architectural concepts and practices for designing and developing IoT software to excel state-of-the-art for IoTs along with suggestions and recommendations for IoT software to the adoption of MSA to fulfil the identified gaps. A systematic analysis was coordinated, covering up the literature on existing IoT solutions by studying 140 qualitatively selected articles performed between 2005 and Jan 2020. One hundred forty articles were comprised in this SLR. The findings of this study demonstrated different research topics including software architectural styles, patterns, and models to build IoT software. This research presents cloud-based computing environments, autonomous, software-defined networking, and responsive applications, and IoT-driven agent-based systems, (1) thirteen MSA architectural and design patterns for IoTs and classification of patterns, (2) classification of software architectures for IoTs into nine main categories and their sub-categories, (3) twenty-three most investigated IoT challenges, and (4) mapping of IoT challenges with software architectural solutions. The study revealed the innovative work on IoT software architecture and trends that help in the creation and dynamic adaptation of IoT software for reusability, automation and human decision-making. The outputs of this SLR are useful in revealing many recommendations to the software industry, software engineering community, and computer sciences community with over the past 15 years of research into the adoption of MSA. This study reflects a distilled awareness of architectural practices and principles to assist researchers and practitioners in promoting information sharing software architectural roles and responsibilities for the Internet of Things software.

Keywords:  

Author(s) Name:  Abdul Razzaq

Publisher name:  Springer

DOI:  10.1007/s42979-020-00359-w

Volume Information:  volume 1, Article number: 350 (2020)

Paper Link:   https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s42979-020-00359-w