Network self-organization in the Internet of Things

The Internet of Things is a paradigm that allows the interaction of ubiquitous devices through a network to achieve common goals. This paradigm like any man-made infrastructure is subject to disasters, outages and other adversarial conditions. Under these situations provisioned communications fail, rendering this paradigm with little or no use. Hence, network self-organization among these devices is needed to allow for communication resilience. This paper presents a survey of related work in the area of self-organization and discusses future research opportunities and challenges for self-organization in the Internet of Things. We begin this paper with a system perspective of the Internet of Things. We then identify and describe the key components of self-organization in the Internet of Things and discuss enabling technologies. Finally we discuss possible tailoring of prior work of other related applications to suit the needs of self-organization in the Internet of Things paradigm.