A paradigm for the cooperation of objects belonging to different IoTs

Abstract

The Internet of Things (IoT) is currently considered the new frontier of the Internet. One of the most effective ways to investigate and implement IoT is based on the use of the social network paradigm. In the last years, social network researchers have introduced new models capable of capturing the growing complexity of this scenario. One of the most known of them is the Social Internetworking System, which models a scenario comprising several related social networks. In this paper, we investigate the possibility of applying the ideas characterizing the Social Internetworking System to IoT and we propose a new paradigm capable of modelling this scenario and of favoring the cooperation of objects belonging to different IoTs. Furthermore, in order to give an idea of both the potentialities and the complexity of this new paradigm, we illustrate in more detail one of the most interesting issues regarding it, namely the redefinition of the betweenness centrality measure.