Peer-to-Peer Data Synchronization Agents

The so-called Internet of Things (IoT) presents a tremendous opportunity for multitude of users to be connected to anything, whenever needed, wherever needed, by whoever needs it. Such opportunities, nonetheless, require more advanced and standardized communication interfaces to facilitate interactions between any types of "things" (smart devices, sensors, systems, networks, etc.). Recent standard proposals as the Quantum Lifecycle Management (QLM) messaging standards were developed and are proposed to provide such standardized interfaces for IoT data exchange. These standards make it possible to develop innovative and standardized techniques to address other issues in the IoT such as the management of replicas of a same data between distinct objects in a peer-to-peer, loosely coupled ways. This paper investigates new strategies-based agent models for peer-to-peer data synchronization in the IoT using the standardized interfaces provided by the QLM standards. This enables the development of models not designed domain-, vendor-or application-specific, as is often the case. Our synchronization models are implemented and assessed considering a real home automation platform.