Design aspects of Web Services for M2M device fault and performance management

The ubiquitous penetration of Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communications challenges the device management. Remote Entity Management is defined as generic functionality that can be shared by different M2M applications. The paper presents an approach to design RESTful Web Services for M2M device fault and performance management. Common Web Services operations are identified and mapped onto HTTP methods. Performance characteristics related to Web Services deployment are evaluated by modeling the traffic flows and utilization of a Service Capability Server.