Quality-of-Service in Machine-to-Machine Service Provisioning Process

This paper tackles the problem of Quality-of-Service (QoS) in heterogeneous Machine-to-Machine (M2M) systems. The concern for QoS guaranties has been widely expressed in the past for both wired and wireless networks. However, only recently when these two types of networks have converged into one, thus making one huge heterogeneous system called M2M, new concerns have emerged. In this paper we measured energy consumption for different communication technologies and proposed an energy consumption model for iOS devices that can be used in future QoS specifications. Finally, we defined a QoS metric that includes both energy and time consumption aspects of one simple M2M service.