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Device Quality Management for IoT Service Providers by Tracking Uncoordinated Operating History

Authors:
Megumi Shibuya
Teruyuki Hasegawa
Hirozumi Yamaguchi

Keywords: IoT; Service ｒeliability; Cumulative failure rate; Operating history; Multiple players; Horizontal specialization business model

Abstract:
According to the widespread of Internet of Things (IoT) services with a huge number of IoT devices, service providers will face the challenges how to grasp the product quality of the IoT devices by themselves in order to make IoT services highly reliable and dependable. The cumulative failure rate is an important reliability index for evaluating the product quality and service reliability of IoT devices. However, in the horizontal specialization business model, IoT service infrastructure is often operated by multiple players such as service providers and device vendors, and device management information that is necessary to obtain the cumulative failure rate is independently and uncoordinatedly owned by them. In this paper, we propose a method of calculating the cumulative failure rate in such environment. We design an algorithm to aggregate and organize such distributed, uncoordinated information to derive the device operating history, which is fed into the cumulative failure rate calculation formula. Through several simulation experiments, we show the effectiveness of our method in several realistic scenarios, where we also arrange several uncoordinated cases.

Pages: 60 to 70

Copyright: Copyright (c) to authors, 2016. Used with permission.

Publication date: December 31, 2016

Published in: journal

ISSN: 1942-2644