Evaluating management architectures for Internet of Things devices

The Internet of Things (IoT) is foreseen as a global network infrastructure that provides wireless communication among any kind of objects. One immediate challenge holds: how to manage these objects, considering that they may have limited computational resources. This management can be achieved through the use of gateways, i.e., devices that intermediate wireless communications, minimizing resource consumption of the restrained objects. The communication between gateways and objects can be performed over many architectures. Among these architectures, we highlight the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP), the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), and the Resource Oriented Architecture (ROA). However, there is a lack of deeper investigations to define which is the best architecture to model the communication between gateways and objects. Therefore, the main contribution of this paper is a quantitative evaluation of SNMP, SOA, and ROA as means for the communication between gateways and objects. Results analysis pointed ROA as the most interesting architecture to model the management communication.