S-IoT, Giving a Social Structure to the Internet of Things

The actual development of the Internet of Things
(IoT) needs major issues related to things’ service discovery and
composition to be addressed. This paper proposes a possible
approach to solve such issues. We introduce a novel paradigm of
“social network of intelligent objects”, namely the Social Internet
of Things (SIoT), based on the notion of social relationships
among objects. Following the definition of a possible social
structure among objects, a preliminary architecture for the implementation
of SIoT is presented. Through the SIoT paradigm,
the capability of humans and devices to discover, select, and use
objects with their services in the IoT is augmented. Besides, a
level of trustworthiness is enabled to steer the interaction among
the billions of objects which will crowd the future IoT.