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Sensors 2012, 12, 11888-11909; doi:10.3390/s120911888 OPEN ACCESS sensors ISSN 1424-8220 /journal/sensors Article Improving Service Management in the Internet of Things Chiara Sammarco and Antonio Iera * A.R.T.S. Laboratory, Department DIMET, University of Reggio Calabria, Loc. Feo di Vito, 89100 Reggio Calabria, Italy; E-Mail: chiara.sammarco@unirc.it * Author to whom correspondence should be addressed; E-Mail: antonio.iera@unirc.it; Tel.: +39-0965-875-286; Fax: +39-0965-875-220. Received: 18 June 2012; in revised form: 22 August 2012 / Accepted: 24 August 2012 / Published: 29 August 2012 Abstract: In the Internet of Things (IoT) research arena, many efforts are devoted to adapt the existing IP standards to emerging IoT nodes. This is the direction followed by three Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) Working Groups, which paved the way for research on IP-based constrained networks. Through a simplification of the whole TCP/IP stack, resource constrained nodes become direct interlocutors of application level entities in every point of the network. In this paper we analyze some side effects of this solution, when in the presence of large amounts of data to transmit. In particular, we conduct a performance analysis of the Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP), a widely accepted web transfer protocol for the Internet of Things, and propose a service management enhancement that improves the exploitation of th