Decoding the Mystery of the Internet of Things

Abstract

System primitives allow formalisms, reasoning, simulations, and reliability and security risk-tradeoffs to be formulated and argued. In this work, six core primitives belonging to most distributed systems are presented. These primitives apply well to systems with large amounts of data, scalability concerns, heterogeneity concerns, temporal concerns, and elements of unknown pedigree with possible nefarious intent. These primitives form the basic building blocks for a Network of 'Things' (NoT), including the Internet of Things (IoT). This keynote offers an underlying and foundational science to IoT. To my knowledge, the ideas and the manner in which the science underlying IoT is presented here is unique. Further, this talk reflects my personal viewpoints and not those of NIST.