Title: Performance analysis of smart digital signage system based on software-defined IoT and invisible image sensor communication,
Abstract: Everything in the world is being connected, and things are becoming
interactive. The future of the interactive world depends on the future Internet
of Things (IoT). Software-defined networking (SDN) technology, a new paradigm
in the networking area, can be useful in creating an IoT because it can handle
interactivity by controlling physical devices, transmission of data among them,
and data acquisition. However, digital signage can be one of the promising
technologies in this era of technology that is progressing toward the
interactive world, connecting users to the IoT network through device-to-device
communication technology. This article illustrates a novel prototype that is
mainly focused on a smart digital signage system comprised of software-defined
IoT (SD-IoT) and invisible image sensor communication technology. We have
proposed an SDN scheme with a view to initiating its flexibility and
compatibility for an IoT network-based smart digital signage system. The idea
of invisible communication can make the users of the technology trendier to it,
and the usage of unused resources such as images and videos can be ensured. In
addition, this communication has paved the way for interactivity between the
user and digital signage, where the digital signage and the camera of a
smartphone can be operated as a transmitter and a receiver, respectively. The
proposed scheme might be applicable to real-world applications because SDN has
the flexibility to adapt with the alteration of network status without any
hardware modifications while displays and smartphones are available everywhere.
A performance analysis of this system showed the advantages of an SD-IoT
network over an Internet protocol-based IoT network considering a queuing
analysis for a dynamic link allocation process in the case of user access to
the IoT network.