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A complex IoT ecosystem makes its orchestration challenging. Bespoke IoT solutions do not fulfill the advantages of ubiquitous IoT infrastructure, with services being readily available yet unable to be easily plugged into without personalized configuration and knowledge of the syntax and strategies being used. IoT solutions customized for specific deployment scenarios continue to be released, while, similarly, efforts continue to produce standardized models.
The resulting complexity poses challenges with regard to achieving consistent ecosystems for the variety of stakeholders who use, manage, operate, and exist within an IoT deployment, each of whom may have conflicting goals. Service Level Agreements go some way in managing operations to fulfil levels of guarantees for citizens, however, again, their bespoke qualities on an organizational-specific basis further increase the complexity of provisioning processes and time involved in the roll-out.
In this Research Topic, we, therefore, seek to provide a compilation of state-of-the-art research in the roll-out of IoT orchestration solutions. Areas of interest include recent work in the design and modelling of orchestration mechanisms and the experimental evaluation of orchestration deployments. It is the intention that these concepts will accommodate the supporting reference architectures and service catalogues.
Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
- Edge orchestration solutions
- Cloud orchestration solutions
- Interoperability IoT management APIs
- Domain-agnostic IoT orchestration
- Socio-cultural challenges of IoT orchestration
- Citizen-centric IoT orchestration
- Cataloguing in support of IoT orchestration
- IoT orchestration along the stakeholder value chain
- Onboarding value-added services within the IoT orchestration solution
- Service Level Agreements in support of IoT orchestration
- IoT reference architecture
- Service catalogues supporting IoT orchestration solutions
- Sustainable orchestration solutions
- Experimental IoT testbed deployment
The resulting complexity poses challenges with regard to achieving consistent ecosystems for the variety of stakeholders who use, manage, operate, and exist within an IoT deployment, each of whom may have conflicting goals. Service Level Agreements go some way in managing operations to fulfil levels of guarantees for citizens, however, again, their bespoke qualities on an organizational-specific basis further increase the complexity of provisioning processes and time involved in the roll-out.
In this Research Topic, we, therefore, seek to provide a compilation of state-of-the-art research in the roll-out of IoT orchestration solutions. Areas of interest include recent work in the design and modelling of orchestration mechanisms and the experimental evaluation of orchestration deployments. It is the intention that these concepts will accommodate the supporting reference architectures and service catalogues.
Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
- Edge orchestration solutions
- Cloud orchestration solutions
- Interoperability IoT management APIs
- Domain-agnostic IoT orchestration
- Socio-cultural challenges of IoT orchestration
- Citizen-centric IoT orchestration
- Cataloguing in support of IoT orchestration
- IoT orchestration along the stakeholder value chain
- Onboarding value-added services within the IoT orchestration solution
- Service Level Agreements in support of IoT orchestration
- IoT reference architecture
- Service catalogues supporting IoT orchestration solutions
- Sustainable orchestration solutions
- Experimental IoT testbed deployment
Keywords: IoT orchestration, Service Level Agreement, Service Cataloguing, Interoperability, Citizen-Centric
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