An application management scheme among M2M gateways

Digital home is a popular technology. Various applications are provided, such as home surveillance and power saving. Users can subscribe desired applications and execute them on mobile gateways or home gateways. However, there are no exiting technologies that can automatically activate/migrate/discover applications among gateways. This paper proposes an application management scheme, which manages the application by considering their utility and cost basing on the information in their provided profiles. Applications can be activated/deactivated and transferred under different conditions, and the management and execution cost can be reduced. The results of the elaboration show that the proposed scheme can effectively reduce the manual control overhead and the energy consumption.