Internet of Things Architecture: Recent Advances, Taxonomy, Requirements, and Open Challenges
Abstract
Recent years have witnessed tremendous growth in the number of smart devices, wireless technologies, and sensors. In the foreseeable future, it is expected that trillions of devices will be connected to the Internet. Thus, to accommodate such a voluminous number of devices, scalable, flexible, interoperable, energy-efficient, and secure network architectures are required. This article aims to explore IoT architectures. In this context, first, we investigate, highlight, and report premier research advances made in IoT architecture recently. Then we categorize and classify IoT architectures and devise a taxonomy based on important parameters such as applications, enabling technologies, business objectives, architectural requirements, network topologies, and IoT platform architecture types. We identify and outline the key requirements for future IoT architecture. A few prominent case studies on IoT are discovered and presented. Finally, we enumerate and outline future research challenges.
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- Authors
- Yaqoob, I., Ahmed, E., Hashem, I. A. T., Ahmed, A. I. A., Gani, A., Imran, M., & Guizani, M.
- Affiliations
- University of Malaya (MY)
- King Saud University (SA)
- University of Idaho (US)
- ORCID
- Venue
- IEEE Wireless Communications
- Published
- 2017-06
- Volume
- 24
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 10-16
- ISSN
- 1536-1284 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2702883767
- Cited by
- 668
- References
- 15
- Citations by year
- 2026: 11 · 2025: 41 · 2024: 48 · 2023: 49 · 2022: 80 · 2021: 103 · 2020: 120 · 2019: 92 · 2018: 108 · 2017: 16
- FWCI
- 61.21
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- IEEE Wireless Communications (publishedVersion)
- FedUni ResearchOnline (Federation University Australia) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- Cisco Systems
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Networks and Communications › IoT and Edge/Fog Computing
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Internet of Things and AI
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Electrical and Electronic Engineering › IoT Networks and Protocols
- Keywords
- Internet of Things, IoT architecture, IoT platforms, network topology, scalability, interoperability, energy efficiency, security (computing), wireless sensor networks, smart devices, organizational goals
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