CTL-Based Dynamic IoT Service Composition

The collaboration of contiguous Internet of Things (IoT) devices is envisioned to satisfy complex applications which are beyond the capacity of single devices. The functionalities of IoT devices are encapsulated as IoT services, and their collaboration is implemented in terms of IoT service composition. Considering the capacity occupancy, release, and consumption caused by the implementation of IoT services, their composition is challenging in capacity-dynamically fluctuating IoT networks. This paper proposes a dynamic IoT service composition mechanism with inter-service dependencies adopted to capture the dynamic changes of IoT devices, and this change is specified by various Quality-of-Service factors. IoT service composition is formalized under Computation Tree Logic specification with certain composite structures and dynamic dependencies, and this composition is formally achieved by an optimized model checking method. Extensive experiments are conducted on publicly available datasets, and evaluation results show that our technique outperforms the state-of-the-art's approaches in relevant performance metrics.