A Comprehensive Survey on Addressing Methods in the Internet of Things
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Over the last 10 years, the Internet of Things has gain a great deal of attention and many papers have been written in this field. The aim of the IoT is to connect all things around us to the Internet and provide us with smarter cities, smarter homes, and generally smarter lives. The number of connected devices to the Internet is progressively increasing and supporting all these devices has caused several challenges for the IoT. One of the IoT challenges is addressing billions of things around the world including computers, tablets, smart phones, wearable devices, sensors and etc. In this paper, we have conducted a comprehensive survey on addressing methods and we have tried to investigate all proposed methods in this field carefully. In addition, we provide advantages and disadvantages of each presented method at the end of each discussion in Section Remarks. We also present some metrics for evaluating all discussed methods and compare these methods based on our metrics.
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