Internet of Things Architecture

pertains is identified

by the subscription

identifier

Interface Definition: Unsubscribe Association Discovery

Input:

Illustrative
Action

Calling

Component

Called

Component

Name of the

functionality

Parameters Prerequisite

―Unsubscrib
e to
discovery of
Associations
‖ Use Case

IoT Service

Client

Virtual

Entity

Resolution

Unsubscribe-

AssociationLookup:

given the

SubscriptionID

cancel the respective

subscription

Subscriptio

nID

SubscriptionI

D available

VE

Resolution

reachable

Interface Definition: Insert Association

Input

Illustrative
Action

Calling

Component

Called

Component

Name of the

functionality

Parameters Prerequisite

―Insert
Association‖
Use Case

IoT Service /

VE & IoT

Service

Monitoring

Virtual

Entity

Resolution

insertAssociation:

insert the given

association into

the information

base of the

Virtual Entity

Resolution

Association Association

available

Output

Functionality
Output

Impacted

Components

Return value Exception

Association
identifier that
uniquely
identifies the
stored
Association

• AssociationID
  (design
  descision: can
  either be
  assigned by the
  IoT Service and
  be part of the
  Association, or
  be assigned by
  the VE
  Resolution)

Association

could not be

inserted