Modelling IoT Application Requirements for Benchmarking IoT Middleware Platforms

Shalmoly Mondal, Alireza Hassani, Prem Prakash Jayaraman, Pari Delir Haghighi, Dimitrios Georgakopoulos

Abstract: The significant advances in the Internet of Things (IoT) have led to IoT applications being widely used in various scenarios ranging from smart city, smart farming, to Industrial IoT (IIoT) solutions. With the explosion of IoT application development, IoT middleware platforms are increasingly being used for hosting such IoT applications. This has given rise to the need for developing benchmarking solutions to analyze and test the performance of different middleware platforms that host these IoT applications. To develop such benchmarks, there are a number of key components that are needed. One of these components is an IoT dataset. To generate such datasets, representing IoT application requirements in a general and formal way is important. In this paper, we propose a framework to model the IoT Applications Requirements and enable Data Generation(ARDG-IoT). The framework supports a formal way to capture IoT application requirements and use these requirements to generate IoT data that can be used to create benchmarks for different IoT middleware platforms. ARDG-IoT consists of our proposed model, IoTSySML, which captures the application requirements, and an IoT data simulator tool, which is used to generate IoT data. We present an evaluation of the framework using a real world Industrial IoT application case study.