Sergey Balandin

Smart Spaces and Next Generation Wired/Wireless Networking

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Next Generation Teletraffic and Wired/Wireless Advanced Networking, NEW2AN 2011 and the 4th Conference on Smart Spaces, ruSMART 2011 jointly held in St. Petersburg, Russia, in August 2011. The 56 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The ruSMART papers are organized in topical sections on role of context in smart spaces, smart spaces platforms and smart-M3, methods for studying smart spaces, and smart spaces solutions. The NEW2AN papers are organized in topical sections on wireless PHY and power control, ad hoc networks, WSN, special topics, simulation + fundamental analysis I, traffic modeling and measurement, simulation + fundamental analysis II, network performance and QoS, cooperative, P2P, overlay networks and content, applications and services, API and software, and video.

Deployment of Smart Spaces in Internet of Things: Overview of the Design Challenges

The smart spaces paradigm and the M3 concept have already showed their potential for constructing advanced service infrastructures. The Internet of Things (IoT) provides the possibility to make any “thing” a user or component of such a service infrastructure. In this paper, we consider the crucial design challenges that smart spaces meet for deploying in IoT: (1) interoperability, (2) information processing, (3) security and privacy. The paper makes a step toward a systematized view on smart spaces as a computing paradigm for IoT applications. We summarize the groundwork from pilot M3 implementations and discuss solutions to cope with the challenges. The considered solutions can be already used in advanced service infrastructures.

Key Properties in the Development of Smart Spaces

This paper is targeted at improving and expanding the understanding of the Smart Spaces concept of by the R&D community. Through the identification of key properties based on an analysis of evolving trends in the mobile industry, the developers are provided with recommendations that improve the adoption of Smart Spaces. It is especially important to understand how Smart Spaces can change the whole services ecosystem and the role that mobile devices will play. The paper discusses some core technologies being developed in the industry that might play a dominant role in the future Smart Spaces. A special attention of the discussion is the latest trend towards a networked inter-device architecture for mobile devices and what new possibilities it opens. With that the discussion expands into general properties of Smart Spaces. The paper summarizes functional and non-functional properties. By understanding the properties and their implications to the development and adoption of Smart Spaces, the developers are better equipped to ensure that the needs of the various stakeholders are taken into account. For this purpose, the paper proposes a set of questions that can be used to estimate how well the planned Smart Space fares when compared against each of the properties.

Internet of Things, Smart Spaces, and Next Generation Networking

By bringing the Internet connectivity to the things, the Internet-ofThings (IoT) promises a number of benefits to its customers, varying from faster and more accurate sensing of our environment, to more cost-efficient tracking of industrial processes. Likewise, from the business perspective, the wide adoption of IoT is expected to generate significant revenues to the providers of IoT application and services. The IoT adoption depends on whether the ecosystems of the companies focusing on IoT technologies would emerge and succeed in delivering to the market the solutions attractive to the customers. Therefore, it is of utmost importance to understand the essence and constituents of IoT ecosystems. This paper is aimed at defining an IoT ecosystem from the business perspective. Based on a literature survey, the technologies that could form a core of an IoT ecosystem are summarized, and the roles of the firms which may comprise such an ecosystem are identified.

The Smart-M3 Platform: Experience of Smart Space Application Development for Internet of Things

Efficient resource utilization in the Internet and in appearing Internet of Things (IoT) environments needs “smart applications”. They operate over shared resources of the computing environment to construct services sensitive to the users and their needs. Smart spaces support services that actively involve surrounding digital devices and Internet services. In this paper, we consider the Smart-M3 platform—an open source solution for creating smart spaces with ontology-driven information sharing. This study makes a next step for evolving smart space application development. We systemize the key properties for application development using Smart-M3 in IoT settings. The properties are analyzed on selected use cases, covering such emerging IoT application domains as collaborative work and e-Tourism. Our experimental evaluation confirms the applicability of analyzed solutions for today’s computing environments.

Anonymous Agent Coordination in Smart Spaces: State-of-the-Art

Development of new technologies brings people new possibilities such as smart spaces. Smart spaces can provide better user experience by allowing a user to connect new devices flexibly and to access all the information in the multi device system from any of the devices. The paper describes work-in-progress performed under a joint project of SPIIRAS and Nokia. The project is aimed at the analysis of existing anonymous agent coordination languages and adaptation of them to coordination of smart space devices.

IoT Use Cases in Healthcare and Tourism

Healthcare and tourism are among the fastest growing business domains in the world. These are biggest service industries that affect whole world population and give jobs to millions of people. Recently we witness major changes in both industries, as more services are transferred to small providers, including individual entrepreneurs and SMEs. This process is driven by huge growth in demand, which cannot be fulfilled by applying traditional solutions. The new generation of digital services reshapes landscape of both industries. Some players see it as a threat, as digital services replace their traditional business models. But fighting against progress is useless, especially when you cannot fulfill growing by old means. Internet of Things (IoT) is an integral part of the Future Internet ecosystem that will have major impact on development of healthcare and e-Tourism services. IoT provides an infrastructure to uniquely identify and link physical objects to their virtual representations in Internet. As a result any physical object can have virtual reflection in the service space. This gives an opportunity to replace actions on physical objects by operations on their virtual reflections, which can be done much faster, cheaper and more comfortable for people. This provides a huge space for developing and applying new business models. In this paper we summarize research and development results of IoT studies and discuss ideas on how to apply them to business.

Virtual shared workspace for smart spaces and M3-based case study

Lack of practical development platforms and specific methods of application programming delays extensive real-life deployment of smart spaces. Virtual shared workspace is a reasonable scenario for evaluation of the smart spaces paradigm maturity. In this paper we consider SmartRoom system, which is Smart-M3 based open source implementation of virtual shared workspaces. Such collaboration activity as conference or meeting is performed in a room equipped with computing and presentational devices as well as accessing Internet services. Personal mobile devices are primary tools for users. Although the Smart-M3 platform is still a research prototype we show that its existing capability is sufficient for developing certain services for practical use. Functionality of SmartRoom services is not finely tuned and not strictly limited by activity domain. Advanced service construction with context awareness, personalization, and augmentation is possible. We illustrate these properties by introducing e-Tourism services for use in SmartRoom collaborative activity.

On-the-fly ontology matching in smart spaces: a multi-model approach

Proper functioning of smart spaces demands semantic interoperability between knowledge processors connected to it. As a consequence it is required to develop models that would enable knowledge processors to translate on-the-fly between the internal and smart space ontologies. This paper presents the developed multi-model approach to the above problem, where the major elements of the selected approach are described in detail.

Distributed Architecture of a Professional Social Network on Top of M3 Smart Space Solution Made in PCs and Mobile Devices Friendly Manner

The paper proposes a social network solution that has been designed to fit equally well for use at mobile devices, PCs and even other types of consumer electronics. This solution is targeted to become a core element of the personal knowledge space and the design has be been done on top of M3 smart space. The result solution will be able to pre- and post-process the collected information and perform efficient reasoning over and organization of the data. Another key advantage of the proposed social network is that it is primary targeted to support professional social communications within a geo-distributed teams working on the same project. For that the solution proposes a flexible and easily extendable set of additional services, such as a variety of conference call and virtual meeting services with logging service, sharable whiteboard, automatic maintenance of action point lists and calendars and so on. As a result the service provides users with completely new experience.