Lightweight Coordination Patterns for Applications of the Internet of Things

Abstract Applications of the Internet of Things (IoT) are famously known for connecting devices via the internet. The main purpose of IoT systems (wireless or wired) is to connect devices together for data collection, buffering and data gateway. The collected large size of data is often captured from remote sources for automatic data analytics or for direct decision making by its users. This paper applies the programming pattern for Big Data in IoT systems that makes use of lightweight Java methods, introduced in the recently published work on ClientNet Distributed Cluster. Considering Big Data in IoT systems means the sensing of data from different resources, the network of IoT devices collaborating in data collection and processing; and the gateways servers where the resulting big data is supposed to be directed or further processed. This mainly involves resolving the issues of Big Data, i.e., the size and the network transfer speed along with many other issues of coordination and concurrency. The computer network that connects IoT may further include techniques such as Fog and Edge computing that resolve much of the network issues. This paper provides solutions to these problems that occur in wireless and wired systems. The talk is about the ClientNet programming model and its application in IoT systems for orchestration, such as coordination, data communication, device identification and synchronization between the gateway servers and devices. These devices include sensors attached with appliances (e.g., home automations, supply chain systems, light and heavy machines, vehicles, power grids etc.) or buildings, bridges and computers running data processing applications. As described in earlier papers, the introduced ClientNet techniques prevent from big data transfers and streaming that occupy more resources (hardware and bandwidth) and time. The idea is motivated by Big Data problems that make it difficult to collect it from different resources through small devices and then redirecting it. The proposed programming model of ClientNet Distributed Cluster stores Big Data on the nearest server coordinated by the nearest coordinator. The gateways and the systems that run analytics programs communicate by running programs from other computers when it is essentially required. This makes it possible to let Big Data rarely move across a communication network and allow only the source code to move around the network. The given programming model greatly simplifies data communication overheads, communication patterns among devices, networks and servers.