An Autonomic-oriented Architecture for the Internet of Things

Electronic tags, usually referred as RFIDs, sensors, wireless VoIP terminals are likely to create a technological and cultural revolution similar to the one initiated by the Internet technology in the early nineties. These very cheap components are manufactured by billions, and are going to be inserted in quite all our everyday objects. Internet of things is a paradigm dealing with an architecture that enables such objects to exchange information through Internet, and therefore to conduct to T2T (thing to thing) communications. But due to their limited hardware and computing resources, things can´t natively handle IP connectivity. This paper aims at defining and proposing an autonomic-oriented architecture to control the communications between these distributed things through network equipment