Title
FABIoT: A Flexible Agent-Based Simulation Model for IoT Environments
Abstract
The Internet of Things aims to digitize everyday physical objects by connecting them to the internet. As a result, cyber-physical environments of multiple sizes emerge, imposing new requirements on applications and software systems in regards support to heterogeneity and volatility. A challenging stage in the engineering of these systems is the validation. Although, there have been significant efforts to offer shared real-world testbeds, the simulations platforms are required to make the validation process cost and time effective. Existing simulation approaches only offer partial coverage to the key IoT environment characteristics, focus on communication or are specific for particular use cases and domains. In this paper, we propose a novel agent-based model that enables the simulation of the IoT systems with the key characteristics of an IoT environment. This model is designed to be flexible and adaptable to different experiments. Our approach introduces events in IoT environments as stochastic processes, enabling the evaluation of IoT systems under different conditions that otherwise would be time consuming and costly. We present the results of our experiments for evaluation of our model. These show that our proposal is a practical solution for the validation of IoT software systems, complementary to the real-world tests.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1109/Cybermatics_2018.2018.00045
2018 IEEE International Conference on Internet of Things (iThings) and IEEE Green Computing and Communications (GreenCom) and IEEE Cyber, Physical and Social Computing (CPSCom) and IEEE Smart Data (SmartData)
Keywords
Field
DocType
Internet of Things,Task analysis,Hardware,Software systems,Computer architecture,Computational modeling
Use case,Task analysis,Computer science,Internet of Things,Process costing,Stochastic process,Software system,Smart objects,Distributed computing,The Internet
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-5386-7975-3
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Marco Pérez-Hernández100.34
Badraddin Alturki231.44
Stephan Reiff-marganiec369462.73