What is it about?
Testing in real IoT and edge computing environments is not feasible due to the high cost and diverse domain knowledge required in order to reason about their diversity, scalability, and usability. To support performance testing and validation of IoT and edge computing configurations and algorithms at scale, simulation frameworks should be developed. Hence, this article proposes a novel simulator IoTSim‐Edge, which captures the behavior of heterogeneous IoT and edge computing infrastructure and allows users to test their infrastructure and framework in an easy and configurable manner. IoTSim‐Edge extends the capability of CloudSim to incorporate the different features of edge and IoT devices. The effectiveness of IoTSim‐Edge is described using three test cases.
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Why is it important?
Our findings shows the varying capability of IoTSim‐Edge in terms of application composition, battery‐oriented modeling, heterogeneous protocols modeling, and mobility modeling along with the resources provisioning for IoT applications.
Perspectives
This article will help the people who want to develop IoT environment for their experiments and simulations. Working in a real IoT environment is not always convenient and cost-efficient. I hope this simulator opens a great opportunity for the researcher to test their models, scenarios and algorithms in more efficient manner.
Ranesh Kumar Naha
University of Tasmania
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This page is a summary of: IoTSim‐Edge: A simulation framework for modeling the behavior of Internet of Things and edge computing environments, Software Practice and Experience, January 2020, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1002/spe.2787.
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