A DIY Approach for the Design of Mission-Planning Architecture Using Autonomous Task–Object Mapping and the Deployment Model in Mission-Critical IoT Systems

Shabir Ahmad, Faisal Mehmood and Do-Hyeun Kim
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Shabir Ahmad: Department of Computer Engineering, Jeju National University, Jeju 63243, Korea
Faisal Mehmood: Department of Computer Engineering, Jeju National University, Jeju 63243, Korea
Do-Hyeun Kim: Department of Computer Engineering, Jeju National University, Jeju 63243, Korea

Sustainability, 2019, vol. 11, issue 13, 1-23

Abstract: Recently, the World Economic Forum (WEF) highlighted mission-critical Internet of Things (MC-IoT) applications as one of the six enablers of sustainable development of smart cities. MC-IoT refers to systems which exacerbate properties like availability, reliability, safety, and security in an application environment of heterogeneously connected physical things and virtual things whose failure could lead to severe consequences such as life loss. The sole characteristic of the mission-critical system is its compliance with real-time behavior. As a result of the critical nature of these systems, it is essential to design the system with sufficient clarity so that none of the requirements is misinterpreted. For this, the involvement of non-technical stakeholders and policymakers is crucial. Previous studies on mission-critical structures mainly focus on the communication overheads, and overlook the design and planning of them. Therefore, in this paper, we present an architecture which enables mission planning on a do-it-yourself plane. We present a task–object mapping and deployment model where different tasks are mapped onto virtual objects and deployed on physical hardware in a task–object pair. The system uses semantic knowledge for autonomous task mapping and suggestions to further aid the orchestration of the process. The tasks are autonomously mapped onto the devices based on the correlation index; this is computed based on the attribute similarities, thus making the system flexible. The performance of the proposed architecture is evaluated with different key performance indicators under different load conditions and the response time is found to be under a few seconds even at peak load conditions.

Keywords: Internet of Things; Mission-Critical Systems; smart space; Do-It-Yourself; embedded devices; task mapping (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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