Critical Challenges of Designing Software Architecture for Internet of Things (IoT) Software System

2022 ◽  
pp. 219-240
Author(s):  
Noor Rehman ◽  
Abdul Wahid Khan
Keyword(s):  
Internet Of Things ◽  
Software Architecture ◽  
Software System

Extraction of an Architectural Model for Least Privilege Analysis

2012 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 27-44
Author(s):  
Bernard Spitz ◽  
Riccardo Scandariato ◽  
Wouter Joosen
Keyword(s):  
Software Architecture ◽  
Building Block ◽  
Source Code ◽  
Software System ◽  
Task Execution ◽  
Design And Implementation ◽  
Prototype Tool ◽  
Least Privilege ◽  
Architectural Model ◽  
Execution Model

This paper presents the design and implementation of a prototype tool for the extraction of the so-called Task Execution Model directly from the source code of a software system. The Task Execution Model is an essential building block for the analysis of the least privilege violations in a software architecture (presented in previous work). However, the trustworthiness of the analysis results relies on the correspondence between the analyzed model and the implementation of the system. Therefore, the tool presented here is a key ingredient to provide assurance that the analysis results are significant for the system at hand.

scholarly journals Breaking Down the Compatibility Problem in Smart Homes: A Dynamically Updatable Gateway Platform

Sensors ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (10) ◽  
pp. 2783 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linh-An Phan ◽  
Taehong Kim
Keyword(s):  
Internet Of Things ◽  
Software Architecture ◽  
Heterogeneous Networks ◽  
Execution Time ◽  
Smart Home ◽  
Smart Homes ◽  
Smart Devices ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Adoption Rate ◽  
The Internet Of Things

Smart home is one of the most promising applications of the Internet of Things. Although there have been studies about this technology in recent years, the adoption rate of smart homes is still low. One of the largest barriers is technological fragmentation within the smart home ecosystem. Currently, there are many protocols used in a connected home, increasing the confusion of consumers when choosing a product for their house. One possible solution for this fragmentation is to make a gateway to handle the diverse protocols as a central hub in the home. However, this solution brings about another issue for manufacturers: compatibility. Because of the various smart devices on the market, supporting all possible devices in one gateway is also an enormous challenge. In this paper, we propose a software architecture for a gateway in a smart home system to solve the compatibility problem. By creating a mechanism to dynamically download and update a device profile from a server, the gateway can easily handle new devices. Moreover, the proposed gateway also supports unified control over heterogeneous networks. We implemented a prototype to prove the feasibility of the proposed gateway architecture and evaluated its performance from the viewpoint of message execution time over heterogeneous networks, as well as the latency for device profile downloads and updates, and the overhead needed for handling unknown commands.

Architecture and Implementation of a Design Repository System

2002 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon Szykman
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
Software Architecture ◽  
Software Systems ◽  
Software System ◽  
Product Knowledge ◽  
Product Models ◽  
Computer Aided ◽  
Prototype Software ◽  
Repository Software

This paper describes the design and development of a design repository software system. This system is a prototype implementation intended to demonstrate the role of design repositories as part of a vision for the next generation of product development software systems. This research involves not only the creation of a prototype software system, but is part of a broader effort that also includes the development of a core product knowledge representation, and that seeks to address terminological and semantic issues associated with computer-aided product development. This paper focuses on the interfaces that have been developed to support authoring and navigation of the product models stored in design repositories, as well as the software architecture and associated rationale that provide the framework on which the system is built.

scholarly journals Architecture-Based Planning of Software Evolution

2014 ◽  
Vol 24 (02) ◽  
pp. 211-241 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sungwon Kang ◽  
David Garlan
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Software Architecture ◽  
Software Evolution ◽  
Architecture Design ◽  
Software System ◽  
A Value

Software architecture allows us to make many decisions about a software system and analyze it even before it has been implemented, so as to make planned development possible. Similarly, architecture-based software evolution planning makes planned evolution possible by allowing us to make many decisions about the evolution of a software system and to analyze its evolution at the level of architecture design before software evolution is realized. In this paper, we develop a framework for architecture-based software evolution planning. It is done by defining various foundational terms and concepts, providing a taxonomy of software evolution plans, and then showing how to calculate values for various types of plans. By identifying and defining constituent foundational concepts, this conceptual framework makes precise the notion of "architecture-based software planning". By developing a value-calculation framework for software evolution plans, it also provides a basis for concrete methods for designing and evaluating evolution plans.

scholarly journals Evaluating energy efficiency of Internet of Things software architecture based on reusable software components

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 155014771668273 ◽  
Author(s):  
Doohwan Kim ◽  
Jae-Young Choi ◽  
Jang-Eui Hong
Keyword(s):  
Energy Consumption ◽  
Internet Of Things ◽  
Software Architecture ◽  
Personal Information ◽  
High Energy ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Quality Factors ◽  
Reusable Components ◽  
Energy Evaluation ◽  
Internet Of Things Technology

Nowadays, Internet of Things technology has garnered a great amount of interest because it can make our life much easier, convenient, and even safer. Internet of Things devices can be connected to the Internet or to each other whenever and wherever in order to collect, process, and share information to support various services. In order to provide useful support, important issues related to security, performance, and energy consumption have to be considered. For example, important personal information can be easily exposed to others because Internet of Things can be easily hacked; low performance and high energy consumption can limit the effectiveness of devices. These issues can be considered as quality factors that need to be met in order to develop software applications in the Internet of Things domain. Energy consumption is critical to provide sustained service within mobile and wireless environments. To this end, this article focuses on how to develop Internet of Things software that takes low energy consumption into account. In particular, we propose energy evaluation techniques that are based on a software architecture that is designed to use reusable components. By performing an experiment, we could verify that our proposing method shows maximum 6.83% of error rate against code-based energy simulation. Our technique can help software engineers to judge whether or not software is developed to satisfy the particular requirements related with energy consumption.

scholarly journals High Performance Software Framework for the Calculation of Satellite-to-Satellite Data Matchups (MMS version 1.2)

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Block ◽  
Sabine Embacher ◽  
Christopher J. Merchant ◽  
Craig Donlon
Keyword(s):  
Software Architecture ◽  
Satellite Data ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Software Framework ◽  
Software System ◽  
Detection Approach ◽  
Intersection Algorithm ◽  
Configurable Software ◽  
Performance Comparisons

Abstract. We present a Multisensor Matchup System (MMS) that allows systematic detection of satellite based sensor-to-sensor matchups and the extraction of local subsets of satellite data around matchup locations. The software system implements a generic matchup-detection approach and is currently being used for validation and sensor harmonisation purposes. An overview of the flexible and highly configurable software architecture and the target processing environments is given. We discuss improvements implemented with respect to heritage systems, and present some performance comparisons. A detailed description of the intersection algorithm is given which allows a fast matchup detection in geometry and time.

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