Transparent Rule Enablement Based on Commonization Approach in Heterogeneous IoT Edge Networks

The paradigm of the Internet of Things (IoT) and edge computing brings a number of heterogeneous devices to the network edge for monitoring and controlling the environment. For reacting to events dynamically and automatically in the environment, rule-enabled IoT edge platforms operate the deployed service scenarios at the network edge, based on filtering events to perform control actions. However, due to the heterogeneity of the IoT edge networks, deploying a consistent rule context for operating a consistent rule scenario on multiple heterogeneous IoT edge platforms is difficult because of the difference in protocols and data formats. In this paper, we propose a transparent rule enablement, based on the commonization approach, for enabling a consistent rule scenario in heterogeneous IoT edge networks. The proposed IoT Edge Rule Agent Platform (IERAP) deploys device proxies to share consistent rules with IoT edge platforms without considering the difference in protocols and data formats. Therefore, each device proxy only considers the translation of the corresponding platform-specific and common formats. Also, the rules are deployed by the corresponding device proxy, which enables rules to be deployed to heterogeneous IoT edge platforms to perform the consistent rule scenario without considering the format and underlying protocols of the destination platform.

A Resource Service Model in the Industrial IoT System Based on Transparent Computing

The Internet of Things (IoT) has received a lot of attention, especially in industrial scenarios. One of the typical applications is the intelligent mine, which actually constructs the Six-Hedge underground systems with IoT platforms. Based on a case study of the Six Systems in the underground metal mine, this paper summarizes the main challenges of industrial IoT from the aspects of heterogeneity in devices and resources, security, reliability, deployment and maintenance costs. Then, a novel resource service model for the industrial IoT applications based on Transparent Computing (TC) is presented, which supports centralized management of all resources including operating system (OS), programs and data on the server-side for the IoT devices, thus offering an effective, reliable, secure and cross-OS IoT service and reducing the costs of IoT system deployment and maintenance. The model has five layers: sensing layer, aggregation layer, network layer, service and storage layer and interface and management layer. We also present a detailed analysis on the system architecture and key technologies of the model. Finally, the efficiency of the model is shown by an experiment prototype system.

A Caching Strategy for Transparent Computing Server Side Based on Data Block Relevance

The performance bottleneck of transparent computing (TC) is on the server side. Caching is one of the key factors of the server-side performance. The count of disk input/output (I/O) can be reduced if multiple data blocks that are correlated with the data block currently accessed are prefetched in advance. As a result, the service performance and user experience quality in TC can be improved. In this study, we propose a caching strategy for the TC server side based on data block relevance, which is called the correlation pattern-based caching strategy (CPCS). In this method, we adjust a model that is based on a frequent pattern tree (FP-tree) for mining frequent patterns from data streams (FP-stream) to the characteristics of data access in TC, and we devise a cache structure in accordance with the storage model of TC. Finally, the access process in TC with real access traces in different caching strategies. Simulation results show that the cache hit rate under the CPCS is higher than that using other algorithms under conditions in which the parameters are coordinated properly.