IEEE Access Special Section Editorial: Toward Service-Centric Internet of Things (IoT): From Modeling to Practice

The Internet of Things (IoT) refers to an emerging paradigm to seamlessly and ubiquitously integrate a large number of smart things with intra/inter links to the physical and cyber worlds. Sensor-enabled communication technologies connect billions of things by efficiently utilizing their locations in the real world. This has fostered active participation and tangible creation of benefits to the economy and ultimately to society. As the so-called smart things are extremely diverse and heterogeneous in terms of computing and communication technology and resource capability, there is no standalone solution toward realization of service-centric provisioning in the IoT. The service domain in IoT environments is also diverse, including energy efficiency, computing capability, coordination time, resource harvesting capacity, dimension of things, and so on. The growing diversity enforces the necessity to address the most significant issue of technological complexity, for practical enhancement and evaluation of quality of service (QoS) and quality of experience (QoE), for service-oriented use cases in IoT environments.