All market and technology studies forecast an explosive growth in the number of “things” which will be connected to the Internet. The resulting network is what is commonly known as the “Internet of Things” (IoT). The IoT poses completely new challenges when compared to the traditional Internet which cannot be faced if the involved objects are just traditional “smart” objects. In fact, the extremely high complexity (huge number of nodes, extreme heterogeneity of their resources and capabilities, uncertainty on their trustworthiness, etc.) of the IoT environment cannot be faced by even very smart objects singularly. Social behavior is the answer found by several creatures to face the complexity of the surrounding environment. Accordingly, recently the concept of Social Internet of Things (SIoT) has been introduced and is the subject of a rapidly increasing research effort. In this tutorial we will motivate the SIoT introduction, we will provide the basic relevant concepts, will survey the existing literature, and will describe a specific solution in details providing some exemplary applications.

Session details:

Part 1: Theoretical discussion (2 hours)

• Basic concepts of Internet of Things
• Technologies and Architectures
• Applications
• IoT open research issues
• Basic notions of Social Networks which may help in addressing IoT issues
• Basic notions of smart objects and their evolutions towards social objects
• Introduction of two different approaches for future IoT
• Social web of things
• Social Internet of things
• Making things socializing: motivations
• Definition of notion of “social relationship” between objects
• Definition of “degrees of social relationship”
• Components and reference architecture, Technological issues
• Applications and scenarios
• Overview of achievable performance
• Main related projects, main research results, main industrial experimentations
• Conclusions & Road Ahead

Part 2: Experiences on a real Social IoT platform (1 hour)

• Presentation of a sample Social IoT based platform
• Architecture, implementation, and Networking primitives
• API for mobile devices, Smart phones, Arduino, Raspberry, etc.
• Demo of simple experiments on the platform (with the participation of some of the attendees, if they like)
• How a mobile device can join the community of devices
• How two devices, members of the community, discover themselves and establish a relationship within the platform

Prerequisites: none

Duration: ~180 min

Presenters Bios:

Prof. Antonio Iera, Ph.D. graduated in Computer Engineering at the University of Calabria, Italy, in 1991 and received a Master Diploma in Information Technology from CEFRIEL/Politecnico di Milano, Italy, in 1992 and a Ph.D. degree from the University of Calabria, Italy, in 1996. From 1994 to 1995 he has been with the Mobile Network Division Research Center, Siemens AG – Munich, Germany and since 1997 with the University Mediterranea, Reggio Calabria, where he currently holds the positions of full professor of Telecommunications and Director of the ARTS - Laboratory for Advanced Research into Telecommunication Systems. He served as TPC member of several IEEE International Conferences and has been co-Guest Editor for different special issues in the IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine. Elevated to the IEEE Senior Member status in 2007. His research interests include: Next generation mobile systems, Advanced Systems for Personal Communications, RFID systems and Internet of Things.

Prof. Giacomo Morabito, Ph.D. received the laurea degree in Electrical Engineering and the PhD in Electrical, Computer and Telecommunications Engineering from the Istituto di Informatica e Telecomunicazioni, University of Catania, Catania (Italy), in 1996 and 2000, respectively. From November 1999 to April 2001, he was with the Broadband and Wireless Networking Laboratory of the Georgia Institute of Technology as a Research Engineer. Since April 2001 he is with the Dipartimento di Ingegneria Informatica e delle Telecomunicazioni of the University of Catania where he is currently Associate Professor. He serves (or has served) in the Editorial Boards of Wireless Networks, Computer Networks and IEEE Wireless Communications. Furthermore, he has been editor or co-guest editor of special issues of IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, IEEE Wireless Communication Magazine, Computer Networks and MONET. His research interests focus on analysis and solutions for broadband and wireless networks.

Prof. Luigi Atzori, Ph.D. is associate professor at the University of Cagliari (Italy). His main research topics of interest are in service management in next generation networks, with particular attention to architectural solutions for the Internet of Things, QoS, service-oriented networking, bandwidth management and multimedia networking. He has published more than 100 journal articles and refereed conference papers. Dr. Atzori has received the Telecom Italia award for an outstanding MSc thesis in Telecommunication and has been awarded a Fulbright Scholarship (11/2003-05/2004) to work on video streaming at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Arizona. He is senior member of IEEE, steering committee chair of the IEEE Multimedia Communications Committee (MMTC). He has been the editor for the ACM/Springer Wireless Networks Journal and guest editor for the IEEE Communications Magazine, Monet and Signal Processing: Image Communications journals. He is currently editor of the IEEE IoT Journal, Ad Hoc Networks Journal and Advances on Multimedia.

Apache Storm is a popular low latency distributed stream processing framework. Apache Storm is used everywhere at Yahoo and at many other companies from automatically tagging every image uploaded to Flickr and analyzing trending search queries to monitoring production servers looking for problems. This hands on tutorial is divided into two parts. The first part covers the basics of Storm, its architecture, and walks you through writing a simple application (not just word count). The second part looks more at how to modify Storm and will walk you through adding in a new feature to storm.

Session details:

Part 1: An introduction to Apache Storm (2 hours)

• Why Stream Processing is Important
• Apache Storm's Architecture
• Trident (Micro Batch Processing on Storm)
• DRPC
• Hands On Example

Part 2: Modifying Apache Storm (1 hour)

• Layout of source code
• Walk through of adding a new feature to Storm

Prerequisites: none

Duration: ~180 min

Presenter Bio:

Bobby Evans is the low latency data processing architect at Yahoo. He is a project management committee member on many big data Apache projects including Storm, Hadoop, Spark, and Tez. His team is responsible for delivering hosted Storm and Spark services to Yahoo.