Discovery TF Report 19 July 2015 Soumya Kanti Datta Mobile Communications Department

Discussions during past 4 weeks…  Requirements analysis from use cases  Building blocks for discovery framework  Registration and un-registration of WoT devices  Life-cycle  Abstraction layer for communication technologies (BLE, NFC…)  Technology landscape and categorization of discovery mechanisms  Landscape 17/06/2015Discovey Task Force Report- p 2

Sketch of landscape  Finding things around me  UriBeacon, NFC  Finding things on my network  mDNS, SSDP  Searching in Directories  CoRE Resource Directory  Searching across Peers  P2P style communication using IoT gateways  Accessing thing metadata  CoRE Link Format 17/06/2015Discovey Task Force Report- p 3

Discussions to conclude at F2F in Sunnyvale  Agree on and conclude the following  Requirements  How to simplify discovery  Building blocks  Tech landscape  Explore  Joint sessions with TF-TD and TF-AP  Input to other TFs 17/06/2015Discovey Task Force Report- p 4

Moving Ahead  Topics to kick-start post July-F2F  Interaction models for different means of discovery  Reference implementations of these models –To evaluate which discovery protocol is suitable for which model –Derive interoperability criteria  Incorporate security and access control mechanisms  Continue surveying the tech landscape 17/06/2015Discovey Task Force Report- p 5