EAGER: Techniques for Deploying Mission Critical IoT Applications

传感、计算和通信设备的快速部署正在导致物联网(IoT)基础设施的显著增长，并使该基础设施在医疗、农业、环境、商业和国土安全等许多领域的应用越来越多。传感器网络、云计算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，物联网带来了更具挑战性的环境：尤其是任务关键型应用的部署，这些应用的性能可能会对业务/组织运营产生深远影响。该计划的目标是开发在物联网环境中部署具有严格要求的任务关键型应用程序的技术。这项提议将侧重于以下任务，以解决部署关键任务系统的问题：(A)第一要务将是开发技术，以适应特定应用程序的需要进行定制部署。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任务关键型应用程序的要求。这可能会迫使设计人员手动开发专门用于特定应用的服务。该项目将开发能够自动优化通用软件的技术，以获得满足特定应用需求的定制版本。(B)第二个重点是开发组合技术，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要求至关重要。将进行广泛的绩效评估，以评估拟议技术相对于手动开发的实施所产生的实施的绩效。

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.