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5 Unleashing the potential of the Internet of Things

• Service composition capability involves the abilities of creating new services or customized
services based on existing capabilities and user specific requirements [C-1-3].
• Mobility service capability involves the abilities of remote access to the IoT, and remote
authentication of users [C-1-4].
• Autonomic service capability involves the abilities of automatic capturing, transferring, and
analysing data of things, and automatic service provisioning based on predefined rules or
policies [C-1-5].

• Location-based and context-aware service capability involves the abilities of automatically
provisioning services based on location and context information, and predefined rules or
policies [C-1-6].
• Service discovery capability involves the abilities of discovering IoT users, services, devices
and things [C-1-7].
• Service subscription capability involves the abilities of subscribing the needed services and
associated data of things by IoT users [C-1-8].
• Naming and addressing capability involves the abilities of creating, updating, deleting,
querying names and addresses of users, devices and things [C-1-9].
• Virtual storage and processing capability involves the abilities of providing storage and
processing resources in a scalable way [C-1-10].
• The capability of adaptable service provision involves the abilities of extending service
configurations to provide new services as required by applications or users of the IoT in order
to be adaptable to different applications or users of the IoT [C-1-11].
• The capability of service provision acknowledgement involves the abilities of acknowledging
the correct service provision requested by applications or users of the IoT in order to support
reliable service provision in the IoT [C-1-12].

8.2 Communication capabilities

The communication group includes event-based communication, periodic communication, self-
configuring for networking, self-healing for networking, self-optimizing for networking, self-
protection for networking, multicast communication, unicast communication, broadcast
communication, anycast communication, error control for communication, Quality of Service
enabling communication, content-aware communication, location-based communication, transport
acknowledgement and adaptable networking capabilities.
• Event-based communication capability enables IoT devices and service provider to initiate
communication based on predefined events [C-2-1].
• Periodic communication capability enables IoT devices and service provider to periodically
initiate communication based on predefined rules [C-2-2].
NOTE 1 – In the perspective of network performance, it is required that the usage of event-based or periodic
communication capabilities be avoided, unless there is a specific reason to communicate using these
capabilities.
• Unicast communication capability enables the IoT to transfer messages from the source entity
to single destination entity [C-2-3].
• Multicast communication capability enables the IoT to transfer messages from the source
entity to a group of destination entities simultaneously [C-2-4].
• Broadcast communication capability enables the IoT to transfer messages to all destination
entities of a given domain [C-2-5].
• Anycast communication capability enables the IoT to transfer messages to any of the
destination entities of a given domain [C-2-6].

478 Rec. ITU-T Y.4401/Y.2068 (03/2015)