IoTNetSim: A Modelling and Simulation Platform for End-to-End IoT Services and Networking
IoTNetSim: A Modelling and Simulation Platform for End-to-End IoT Services and Networking
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IoTNetSim：端到端物联网服务和网络的建模和仿真平台
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2019
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G. Blair
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M. Salama;Y. Elkhatib;G. Blair
物联网（IoT）系统正变得越来越复杂、异构和普及，集成了各种物理设备和虚拟服务，这些设备和服务使用不同的连接类型分布在架构层（云、雾、边缘）上。因此，这种系统的研究和设计已被证明是具有挑战性的。尽管物联网研究的涌入以及基于仿真的方法在支持研究方面的显著优势，但普遍缺乏适当的建模和仿真平台来创建端到端物联网服务的详细表示，即从底层物联网节点到云中的应用层沿着底层网络基础设施。为了帮助研究人员和从业人员克服这些挑战，我们提出了IoTNetSim，这是一种用于端到端物联网服务建模和仿真的新型自包含可扩展平台。该平台支持对异构物联网节点（传感器、执行器、网关等）进行建模。利用它们的细粒度细节（移动性、能量分布等），以及应用逻辑和网络连接的不同模型。拟议的工作与当前的文献不同，它是一种用于端到端物联网服务的一体化工具，具有多层架构，允许对具有不同结构的物联网系统进行建模。我们使用两个来自自然环境和灾害监测物联网领域的非常大规模的真实案例，对我们的IoTNetSim实现进行了实验验证和评估。
Internet-of-Things (IoT) systems are becoming increasingly complex, heterogeneous and pervasive, integrating a variety of physical devices and virtual services that are spread across architecture layers (cloud, fog, edge) using different connection types. As such, research and design of such systems have proven to be challenging. Despite the influx in IoT research and the significant benefits of simulation-based approaches in supporting research, there is a general lack of appropriate modelling and simulation platforms to create a detailed representation of end-to-end IoT services, i.e. from the underlying IoT nodes to the application layer in the cloud along with the underlying networking infrastructure. To aid researchers and practitioners in overcoming these challenges, we propose IoTNetSim, a novel self-contained extendable platform for modelling and simulation of end-to-end IoT services. The platform supports modelling heterogeneous IoT nodes (sensors, actuators, gateways, etc.) with their fine-grained details (mobility, energy profile, etc.), as well as different models of application logic and network connectivity. The proposed work is distinct from the current literature, being an all-in-one tool for end-to-end IoT services with a multi-layered architecture that allows modelling IoT systems with different structures. We experimentally validate and evaluate our IoTNetSim implementation using two very large-scale real-world cases from the natural environment and disaster monitoring IoT domains.