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This is because their products are deployed in a large number of different buildings, and it is neither feasible for a vendor to negotiate with each building to use the building\u2019s network (e.g., WiFi) nor practical to establish its own network infrastructure. The vendor can rent a dedicated channel from an ISP to act as a thing-to-cloud communication (TCC) link for each of its IoT devices. The readily available choices, e.g., 3G, is over costly for most IoT devices. ISPs are developing cheaper choices for TCC links, yet we expect that the number of choices for TCC links will be small as compared to hundreds or thousands of requirements on different costs and data rates from IoT applications.<\/jats:p>\n          <jats:p>\n            We address this issue by proposing a\n            <jats:italic>communication sharing<\/jats:italic>\n            architecture\n            <jats:italic>sTube+, sharing tube<\/jats:italic>\n            . 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