Building Blocks of the Internet of Things

Five core primitives belonging to most distributed systems are presented. These primitives apply well to systems with large amounts of data, scalability concerns, heterogeneity concerns, temporal concerns, and elements of unknown pedigree with possible nefarious intent. These primitives form the basic building blocks for a Network of 'Things' (NoT), including the Internet of Things (IoT). This talk discusses the underlying and foundational science of IoT. To our knowledge, the ideas and the manner in which the science underlying IoT is presented here is unique.