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3 Unleashing the potential of the Internet of Things

Requirement Requirement Requirement description Summary of
number category the requirement
S10 Service Service subscription support is Service subscription
required, so that the IoT can support is required.
provide a means to allow the IoT
user to subscribe to the needed
services and associated data of
things.
S11 Service Standardized naming and Standardized naming
addressing of services and things and addressing is
is required. required.
S12 Service In order to store and process a Virtual storage and
large amount of data (big data), processing capabilities
virtual storage and processing are required.
capabilities are required.

C1 Communication The IoT is required to support Event-based, periodic,
event-based, periodic and and automatic
automatic communications communication modes
between devices or between IoT are required to be
users. supported.
C2 Communication The support of the unicast The support of the
communication mode is required unicast, multicast,
(e.g., for communications broadcast and anycast
between IoT users or devices). communication modes
The support of the multicast, is required.
broadcast and anycast
communication modes is
required, so that the IoT can
provide various communication
services within a group of IoT
users or devices (e.g., to support
the collaboration among IoT
users or devices).
C3 Communication The support of device initiated The support of device
communications is required so initiated
as to satisfy the requirements of communications is
automatic communications. required.
C4 Communication Error control for Error control for
communications is required, so communications is
that the IoT is able, for example, required to be
to cope with interferences supported.
between devices.

C5 Communication The IoT is required to provide Time-critical
time-critical message handling communications are
and delivery. required to be
supported.
C6 Communication Self-configuring, self-healing, Autonomic
self-optimizing and self- networking is
protecting capabilities at the required.
networking level are required
in IoT.

86 Rec. ITU-T Y.4100/Y.2066 (06/2014)