Design and Implementation of Reactive Distributed Internet of Things Platform based on Actor Model

Lv, Haidong; Ge, Xiaolong; Zhu, Hongzhi; Wang, Chen; Yuan, Zhiwei; Zhu, Yongkang

doi:10.1109/itnec.2019.8729169

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“…HL et al. [ 20 ] presented an actor-based implementation of the actor model in the IoT domain, emphasizing its event-driven and reactive features. Another work [ 21 ] evaluated the suitability of the actor model for IoT by comparing its performance on blockchain in accordance with best practice implementation based on key IoT performance requirements.…”

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“…In summary, most of the existing works in the area of secure IoT communication [ 2 , 6 , 20 , 21 , 22 ] mix between the computation and communication concerns without addressing the security aspects for limited-resource IoT devices. In comparison, SecIoTComm separates the secure communication and actor computations aspects by composing simple communication to realize complex communication operations via different composition rules.…”

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SecIoTComm: An Actor-Based Model and Framework for Secure IoT Communication

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Akujuobi

2022

Sensors

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Internet of Things (IoT) ecosystems are becoming increasingly ubiquitous and heterogeneous, adding extra layers of complexity to secure communication and resource allocation. IoT computing resources are often located at the network edge and distributed across many heterogeneous sensors, actuators, and controller devices. This makes it challenging to provide the proper security mechanisms to IoT ecosystems in terms of manageability and maintainability. In an IoT ecosystem, computational resources are naturally distributed and shareable among their constituency, which creates an opportunity to distribute heavy tasks to them. However, resource allocation in IoT requires secure and complex communication and coordination mechanisms, which existing ones do not adequately support. In this paper, we present Secure Actor-based Model for IoT Communication (SecIoTComm), a model for representing secure IoT communication. SecIoTComm aims to represent secure IoT communication properties and design and implement novel mechanisms to improve their programmability and performance. SecIoTComm separates the communication and computation concerns, achieving design modularity in building IoT ecosystems. First, this paper presents the syntax and operational semantics of SecIoTComm. Then, we present an IoT framework implementing the key concepts of the model. Finally, we evaluate the developed framework using various performance and scalability metrics.

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SecIoTComm: An Actor-Based Model and Framework for Secure IoT Communication

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Ahmed

Akujuobi

2022

Sensors

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“…Although there are some existing technologies focused on sensor-based systems [5][6][7]9], there is relatively limited foundational work. This is in part because of the lack of precise understanding, specification, and analysis of such systems, and consequently, there is limited platform support for programming them.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Compared to the traditional design approach [7,9,13,17,19], which focuses mainly on an application-specific point-design which allows little compelling heritage, the proposed approach offers the following salient advantages: (I) It provides a generic model for developing an efficient sensor-data processing system. Basing designs on a standard integration platform architecture with AI libraries of pre-proven components will provide a solid foundation and streamline the development and validation processes.…”

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“…Although there is growing body of work on different aspects of IoT services (e.g., [5][6][7]), research in each of these areas so far has been largely focused on either technology addressing specific challenges [8,9] or particular applications [3,10]. Moreover, the technologies developed in one area do not readily migrate to the other because of the differences in the applications and device specifications involved in each area.…”

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An Actor-Based Formal Model and Runtime Environment for Resource-Bounded IoT Services

Ahmed

2022

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With sensors becoming increasingly ubiquitous, there is tremendous potential for Internet of Things (IoT) services that can take advantage of the data collected by these sensors. Although there are a growing number of technologies focused on IoT services, there is relatively limited foundational work on them. This is partly because of the lack of precise understanding, specification, and analysis of such services, and, consequently, there is limited platform support for programming them. In this paper, we present a formal model for understanding and enabling reasoning about distributed IoT services. The paper first studies the key properties of the IoT services profoundly, and then develops an approach for fine-grained resource coordination and control for such services. The resource model identifies the core mechanisms underlying IoT services, informing design and implementation decisions about them if implemented over a middleware or a platform. We took a multi-agent systems approach to represent IoT services, broadly founded in the actors model of concurrency. Actor-based services can be built by composing simpler services. Furthermore, we created a proximity model to represent an appropriate notion of IoT proximity. This model represents the dynamically evolving relationship between the service’s sensing and acting capabilities and the environments in which these capabilities are exercised. The paper also presents the design of a runtime environment to support the implementation of IoT services. Key mechanisms required by such services will be implemented in a distributed middleware.

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