EAGER: Techniques for Deploying Mission Critical IoT Applications

传感、计算和通信设备的快速部署导致物联网（IoT）基础设施的显著增长，并且在医疗、农业、环境、商业和国土安全等许多领域的应用中越来越多地使用这些基础设施。传感器网络、云和边缘计算领域对物联网的发展做出了重大贡献。然而，与边缘计算和传感器网络相比，物联网呈现出更具挑战性的环境：特别具有挑战性的是关键任务应用程序的部署，这些应用程序的性能可能会深刻影响业务/组织的运营。本提案的目标是开发在物联网环境中部署具有严格要求的关键任务应用程序的技术。这项建议将通过集中于下列任务来解决部署关键任务系统的问题：(a)第一个重点将是发展定制部署的技术，以满足具体应用的需要。人们希望将物联网软件基础设计为通用的，以便它可以被广泛的应用程序使用。然而，通用软件可能不适合满足关键任务应用程序的需求。这可能会迫使设计人员手动开发针对特定应用程序的专用服务。该项目将开发能够自动优化通用软件以获得定制版本以满足特定应用程序需求的技术。(b)第二个重点是发展组合技术，系统地利用应用程序之间的共性。由于可能有多个应用程序共享底层资源，因此利用这些共性对于满足严格的性能需求至关重要。将进行广泛的性能评估，以评估由提议的技术生成的实现的性能，并相对于手动开发的实现进行评估。

The rapid deployment of sensing, computing and communication devices is resulting in significant growth in Internet of Things (IoT) infrastructure, and in increased use of this infrastructure for applications in many domains such as medical, agricultural, environmental, commercial, and homeland security. The area of sensor networks, and cloud and edge computing has contributed significantly to the development of IoT. However, IoT presents a more challenging environment as compared to edge computing and sensor networks: Specially challenging is the deployment of mission-critical applications - applications whose performance may deeply impact business/organization operations. The goal of this proposal is to develop techniques to deploy mission critical applications with stringent requirements in IoT environments. This proposal will address the problem of deploying mission-critical systems by focusing on the following tasks: (a) The first thrust will be development of techniques to customize deployments to meet the needs of specific applications. One would like to design the IoT software base to be generic so that it can be used by a wide range of applications. However, generic software may not be suitable to to meet the requirements of mission critical applications. This may force the designers to manually develop services specialized for specific applications. The project will develop techniques that can automatically optimize generic software to obtain customized versions to meet the needs of specific applications. (b) The second thrust is the development of compositional techniques that will systematically exploit commonalities between the applications. As there may be multiple applications that share the underlying resources, exploiting such commonalities will be essential to meet stringent performance requirements. Extensive performance evaluation will be conducted to evaluate the performance of implementations generated by the proposed techniques with respect to manually developed implementations.