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3 Unleashing the potential of the Internet of Things
2) The gateway is recommended to support uniform interaction through standardized
protocols with different applications.
8.3 Support capabilities related requirements and recommendations
– Device and service discovery
When devices are connected to a gateway, the gateway discovers them. In addition, the
gateway discovers new services which are published by applications.
The device and service discovery requirements of the gateway are as follows:
1) The gateway is required to support mechanisms for device discovery when a device
connects to the gateway for the first time or in the case of gateway restart.
2) The gateway is required to support mechanisms for service discovery when new
services are published by applications.
– Device management
There are a great number of devices that are connected to a gateway and most of them have
capability constraints. The gateway manages devices based on policies or instructions
received from applications.
The device management requirements of the gateway are as follows:
1) The gateway is required to support management of device related information, e.g.,
device identification, device configuration, etc.
2) The gateway is required to support monitoring of device status for usage by
applications or itself.
3) The gateway is required to support firmware and software update of devices.
4) The gateway is required to support device management on behalf of applications upon
request.
5) The gateway is recommended to support fault management of devices based on
policies.
6) The gateway is recommended to support performance management of devices based on
policies.
– Device identifier management
Multiple types of device identifiers may be used in IoT applications, e.g., IP address,
MSISDN, URI, data elements, etc. A device may have single or multiple identifiers which
are managed by the gateway.
The device identifier requirements of the gateway are as follows:
1) The gateway is required to support identifier mapping capability between different
types of device identifiers.
2) The gateway is recommended to support identifier combination capability, e.g., the
combination of device identifier with gateway identifier.
NOTE – The combined identifiers may be provided to applications as globally unique identifiers,
while the gateway resolves the combined identifiers in order to address the different devices.
3) The gateway is recommended to support the assignment of temporary communication
identifiers to the devices connected to the gateway itself.
104 Rec. ITU-T Y.4101/Y.2067 (06/2014)