Towards efficient mobile M2M communications: Survey and open challenges

Sensors (Switzerland)

Volumn 14, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 19582-19608

  Pereira, Carlos ^a   Aguiar, Ana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Cellular networks; CoAP; Gateways; Machine to Machine communications; Mobile communications; MQTT; Resource usage efficiency; Smartphones; Wireless networks; Wireless sensor networks

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; DATA ACQUISITION; GATEWAYS (COMPUTER NETWORKS); MOBILE DEVICES; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; SMARTPHONES; SURVEYS; WIRELESS NETWORKS; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

CELLULAR NETWORK; COAP; MACHINE-TO-MACHINE COMMUNICATIONS; MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS; MQTT; RESOURCE USAGE;

ENERGY EFFICIENCY;

EID: 84908519604     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s141019582     Document Type: Review

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