High-Level Application Development for Sensor Networks: Data-Driven Approach

Pathak, Animesh; Prasanna, Viktor K.

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-14849-1_26

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“…Some of these questions are: (DQ1) considering the data sending rate required by the application, what is the operational lifetime of the Water Sensor devices? ; (DQ2) in the S 2…”

Section: Answering Design Questionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Heterogeneity is an intrinsic feature in the Internet of Things (IoT) systems, regarding several aspects such as network protocols, data formats, hardware and software platforms [1]. Such a degree of heterogeneity poses challenges to develop IoT applications when following traditional approaches, as the node-centric programming [2], which has been widely used in the context of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) [3], a subset of IoT. In such an approach, applications are developed in a platform-dependent way, with experts in embedded systems programming the tasks required for individual nodes, as well as the interactions between them, by using general-purpose programming languages.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Towards the adoption of OMG standards in the development of SOA-based IoT systems

Costa

Pires

Delicato

2020

Journal of Systems and Software

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A common feature of the Internet of Things (IoT) is the high heterogeneity, regarding network protocols, data formats, hardware and software platforms. Aiming to deal with such a degree of heterogeneity, several frameworks have applied the Model-Driven Development (MDD) to build IoT applications. On the software architecture viewpoint, the literature has shown that the Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is a promising style to address the interoperability of entities composing these solutions. Some features of IoT make it challenging to analyze the impact of design decisions on the SOAbased IoT applications behavior. Thus, it is a key requirement to simulate the model to verify whether the system performs as expected before its implementation. Although the literature has identified that the SOA style is suitable for addressing the interoperability, existing modelling languages do not consider SOA elements as first-class citizens when designing IoT applications. Furthermore, although existing MDD frameworks provide modeling languages comprising well-defined syntax, they lack execution semantics, thus, are not suitable for model execution and analysis. This work aims at addressing these issues by introducing IoTDraw. The framework provides a fully OMG-compliant executable modeling language for SOA-based IoT systems; thus, its specifications can be implemented by any tool implementing OMG standards. Keywords-internet of things, application, model-driven development, service-oriented architecture given rise to the recent paradigm known as Sensor-Cloud or Cloud of Things, which aims to make the most of both technologies. IoT-generated data that requires a lot of processing or long-term storage can be sent to the cloud, which in turn extends its service portfolio to encompass sensing and actuation capabilities. Cloud platforms follow a service-based resource provisioning model. Cloud platforms providing infrastructure for IoT systems naturally adopt the services approach (e.g., [17], [18]). In a recent survey that investigated middleware technologies for Cloud of Things [19], the authors have identified that SOA is the main architectural style in CoT-based Middleware, due to is capability of promoting interoperability and reusability in IoT systems. 1.1 Issues in designing MDD & SOA-based IoT Systems Any DSL must provide a coherent set of concepts related to the domain of interest [8]. That is, the DSL must be expressive, aiming to allow the precise identification of multiple aspects regarding the application domain. Otherwise, if the DSL lacks essential elements of the underlying domain, the models may be at least ambiguous, or the modelers may not be able to represent all components of the applications. Although the literature has identified the suitability of the SOA style for addressing the interoperability in the IoT domain, to the best of our knowledge, there is no DSL tailored for the modeling of SOA-based IoT applications. SOA is a proven architectural pattern, with a well-known set of concepts. Existing DSLs ...

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“…Some of these questions are: (DQ1) considering the data sending rate required by the application, what is the operational lifetime of the Water Sensor devices? ; (DQ2) in the S 2…”

Section: Answering Design Questionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Towards the adoption of OMG standards in the development of SOA-based IoT systems

Costa

Pires

Delicato

2020

Journal of Systems and Software

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“…Each one uses a domain-specific language to specify their concerns, and the final application is generated by combining all the specifications. Other IoT systems based on MDD are PervML [41], DiaSuite [42], ATaG [43] and Pantagruel [44].…”

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Towards an Easily Programmable IoT Framework Based on Microservices

Ortín¹,

O’Shea²

2018

JSW

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The number of devices connected to the Internet of Things (IoT) is increasing so rapidly that end-users with no programming background will demand the implementation of their own IoT services and applications. However, IoT programming is still a difficult task because of device heterogeneity, dynamic changes in the physical environment, and scalability, security, accessibility and availability issues. Many of these liabilities are also present in distributed systems, where microservice architectures are successfully used. Therefore, in this article we propose an IoT framework based on microservices to ease the development of IoT software. Visual programming is proposed to permit end-users to build simple services and applications. Visual dataflow abstractions declaratively identify the "things" and services in the network, creating a new level of indirection to create applications capable of adapting to changes in the IoT network. The devices connected to the network must provide a semantic self-description in order to support a global discovery service. End-users could describe the domain logic with existing visual programming abstractions previously proven to be suitable for non-programmers. The visual programs will be transparently compiled and deployed as microservices in a cloud-based environment, optimizing network traffic and runtime performance, while ensuring scalability, accessibility and availability. Software container technologies will be utilized to provide self-deployment of microservices.

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“…ATaG (Pathak and Prasanna, 2011), which is a WSN is a macroprogramming framework to develop SCC applications. ATaG presents a compilation framework that translates a program, containing abstract notations, into executable node-level programs.…”

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Enabling high-level application development for the Internet of Things

Patel

Cassou

2015

Journal of Systems and Software

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Application development in the Internet of Things (IoT) is challenging because it involves dealing with a wide range of related issues such as lack of separation of concerns, and lack of high-level of abstractions to address both the large scale and heterogeneity. Moreover, stakeholders involved in the application development have to address issues that can be attributed to different life-cycles phases. when developing applications. First, the application logic has to be analyzed and then separated into a set of distributed tasks for an underlying network. Then, the tasks have to be implemented for the specific hardware. Apart from handling these issues, they have to deal with other aspects of life-cycle such as changes in application requirements and deployed devices.Several approaches have been proposed in the closely related fields of wireless sensor network, ubiquitous and pervasive computing, and software engineering in general to address the above challenges. However, existing approaches only cover limited subsets of the above mentioned challenges when applied to the IoT. This paper proposes an integrated approach for addressing the above mentioned challenges. The main contributions of this paper are: (1) a development methodology that separates IoT application development into different concerns and provides a conceptual framework to develop an application, (2) a development framework that implements the development methodology to support actions of stakeholders. The development framework provides a set of modeling languages to specify each development concern and abstracts the scale and heterogeneity related complexity. It integrates code generation, task-mapping, and linking techniques to provide automation. Code generation supports the application development phase by producing a programming framework that allows stakeholders to focus on the application logic, while our mapping and linking techniques together support the deployment phase by producing device-specific code to result in a distributed system collaboratively hosted by individual devices. Our evaluation based on two realistic scenarios shows that the use of our approach improves the productivity of stakeholders involved in the application development.

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High-Level Application Development for Sensor Networks: Data-Driven Approach

Cited by 9 publications

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Towards the adoption of OMG standards in the development of SOA-based IoT systems

Towards the adoption of OMG standards in the development of SOA-based IoT systems

Towards an Easily Programmable IoT Framework Based on Microservices

Enabling high-level application development for the Internet of Things

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