Dissertation: Model-Driven Development, Deployment, and Analysis of Internet of Things Applications, Jörg Christian Kirchhof

Description

The Internet of Things (IoT) describes the idea of connecting objects equipped with sensors and actuators to each other and to the Internet. IoT applications are complex to develop for a variety of reasons, including the heterogeneity of the IoT devices, diverse software stacks, the fact that IoT applications are usually distributed applications, and the fragility of the hardware and network connection. Model-driven methods promise to make the complex development of IoT applications manageable by raising the level of abstraction. Related work has proposed a variety of component and connector (C&C) architecture description languages (ADLs) for developing IoT applications. However, these mainly focus on the early development phases and largely neglect reliability aspects. Accordingly, this work focuses on the model-driven engineering of IoT applications throughout their lifecycle. We present MontiThings, an ecosystem for model-driven IoT applications. Based on existing approaches, the MontiThings ecosystem specifies an IoT-focused C&C ADL using the MontiCore language workbench. MontiThings aims at offering an ecosystem that covers the lifecycle of IoT applications starting from the first architecture concepts up to the eventual deployment of the application and its analysis during runtime. At all stages of this process, MontiThings offers reliability mechanisms that can help developers to specify resilient applications.

Period	11 Nov 2022
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