Abstract As the Internet of Things (IoT) becomes a reality, millions of devices will be
connected to IoT platforms in smart cities. These devices will cater to several areas within a
smart city such as healthcare, logistics, and transportation. These devices are expected to
generate significant amounts of data requests at high data rates, therefore, necessitating the
performance benchmarking of IoT platforms to ascertain whether they can efficiently handle
such devices. In this article, we present our results gathered from extensive performance …