ABSTRACT
The ongoing evolution of wireless cellular networks is creating a new ecosystem with the pervasive presence of a great variety of network-enabled objects, which, based on unique addressing schemes, are able to interact with each other. Cellular connectivity is reaching beyond smartphones and tablets, providing access to data networks for connected home appliances, machinery, and vehicles. The
rapid evolution of mobile networking technologies and the transition toward Internet Protocol (IP) v6 might drive this trend in to an ecosystem in which every single consumer item could be reachable through the cellular network. This convergence of the Internet and cellular mobility networks is breeding new machine-to-machine (M2M) communication systems, which are the enabling platform for the IoT [1].
