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Applications and Architectures of Social Internet of Things

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Social Internet of Things (SIoT) is a paradigm of the Internet of Things (IoT) that integrates the social networking concept into the IoT and provides a platform for global interconnected IoT objects to obtain social-like capabilities, which allow these objects to autonomously establish social relationships, request or provide services, and collaborate with others to achieve a common goal on behalf of their owners. This article first introduces the background and concept of SIoT. Then, it systematically summarizes the existing architectures of SIoT. Finally, the article concludes some key applications of SIoT and discusses security and trust issues in SIoT.

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  1. The George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA

    Cheng Zhang & Yawei Wang

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  1. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo , Waterloo, ON, Canada

    Xuemin (Sherman) Shen

  2. Faculty of Business and Information Technology, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Oshawa, ON, Canada

    Xiaodong Lin

  3. Dpt.of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Nebraska–Lincoln, Omaha, NE, USA

    Kuan Zhang

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  1. Department of Computer Science, George Washington University, Washington, D.C., USA

    Xiuzhen Cheng

  2. School of Engineering and Technology, University of Washington Tacoma, Tacoma, Washington, USA

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Zhang, C., Wang, Y. (2019). Applications and Architectures of Social Internet of Things. In: Shen, X., Lin, X., Zhang, K. (eds) Encyclopedia of Wireless Networks. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32903-1_341-1

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