Cloud Based IoE Connectivity Engines for The Next Generation Networks: Challenges and Architectural Overview

Emerging 5G and beyond networks have been proposed to provide communication of anywhere, anytime, and any type for massive machine type objects and Internet of Things (IoT) that can be broadly called as Internet of Everything (IoE). With such next generation networks, creating, processing, storing, and sharing of large amount of data will take place at everywhere in every time. The problem is how to manage this life cycle of data, its critical timing and data traffic accurately and efficiently. This paper discusses issues and challenges with Cloud gateways with a focus on Cloud Based IoE Globe architecture for next generation networks, thorough which a large amount of data is assumed to be carried in the network. Cloud gateway that forms the middleware layer in IoE architecture is one of the most effective solutions for the issues identified in this paper. Cloud Gateway Engines are the cornerstone of its architecture. This paper also proposes an architecture for connectivity engines in IoE, which is called as Topologically Connected Gateway Engine (TCGE) architecture. Requirements and functionalities of proposed TCGE architecture are discussed.