Data-centric service-oriented management of things

With the Internet of Things, more and more devices become remotely manageable. The amount and heterogeneity of managed devices make the task of implementing management functionality challenging. Future Pervasive Computing scenarios require implementing a plethora of services to provide management functionality. With growing demand on services, reducing the emerging complexity becomes increasingly important. A simple-to-use programming model for implementing complex management scenarios is essential to enable developers to create the growing amount of required management software at high quality. The paper presents how data-centric mechanisms, as known from network management, can be utilized to create a service-oriented architecture (SOA) for management services. The resulting shift of complexity from access functionality towards data structures introduces new flexibility and facilitates the programming of management applications significantly. This is evaluated with a user study on the reference implementation.

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