A Simulation Model Demonstrating the Impact of Social Aspects on Social Internet of Things

Abstract

In addition to seamless connectivity and smartness, the objects in the Internet of Things (IoT) are expected to have the social capabilities -these objects are termed as "social objects". In this paper, an intuitive paradigm of social interactions between these objects are argued and modeled.The impact of social behavior on the interaction pattern of social objects is studied taking Peerto-Peer (P2P) resource sharing as an example application. The model proposed in this paper studies the implications of competitive vs. cooperative social paradigm, while peers attempt to attain the shared resources / services. The simulation results divulge that the social capabilities of the peers impart a significant increase in the quality of interactions between social objects.Through an agent-based simulation study, it is proved that cooperative strategy is more efficient than competitive strategy. Moreover, cooperation with an underpinning on real-life networking structure and mobility does not negatively impact the efficiency of the system at all; rather it helps.

An Agent-Based Model of Task-Allocation and Resource-Sharing for Social Internet of Things

“…In our earlier publications [8,55,56], we used a number of combinations based on the above-mentioned parameters, and reported the following results:…”

“…In our previous work [6,8], we provided evidence of the usefulness of things maintaining their own social networks, in the case of a fair utilization of shared resources. The results show that an overall cooperation among the agents' outperforms competition.…”

“…psp contains all other agents in the neighborhood [strategy "mesh" (whole space) or "regular" (only neighborhood) or "small-world" (in a proximity defined by neighborhood and beta value)] who have completed the current_service (evidenced by CSC table). Adapted from [8]. Figure 2 shows the resource-sharing model of peers in cooperative mode.…”

“…The unprecedented growth and popularity of social networks have a significant influence on researchers of various domains, including SIoT research [5,8]. We believe that thinking beyond social networking is needed for more meaningful arguments about SIoT.…”

“…These features provide a perspective that is not always applicable to social networking. Towards this, in our previous work [6,8], we developed a framework suggesting that the social objects:…”