Simulation of the Internet of Things

Abstract

This paper presents main concepts and issues concerned with the simulation of Internet of Things (IoT). The heterogeneity of possible scenarios, arising from the massive deployment of an enormous amount of sensors and devices, imposes the use of sophisticated modeling and simulation techniques. In fact, the simulation of IoT introduces several issues from both quantitative and qualitative aspects. We discuss novel simulation techniques to enhance scalability and to permit the real-time execution of massively populated IoT environments (e.g., large-scale smart cities). In particular, we claim that agent-based, adaptive Parallel and Distributed Simulation (PADS) approaches are needed, together with multi-level simulation, which provide means to perform highly detailed simulations, on demand. We present a use case concerned with the simulation of smart territories.Comment: Proceedings of the IEEE 2016 International Conference on High Performance Computing and Simulation (HPCS 2016

Multi-level simulation of Internet of Things on smart territories

“…Keywords: Simulation, Smart cities, Internet of Things, Multi-level Simulation, Parallel And Distributed Simulation (PADS) 0 Some parts of the research work described in this paper previously appeared in [1,2,3]. This paper is an extensively revised and extended version of the previous work in which more than 30% is new material.…”

“…When it is required to simulate an area that, for instance, is populated by a large number of wireless devices, then a detailed simulation model could be employed and executed by typical simulators that have been designed for this purpose e.g. OMNeT++ [21] [1]. At the simulation bootstrap the whole scenario is executed at Level 0 (that is, with minimal details).…”

“…This section describes multi-level simulation, an approach for large scale simulation setups [1,7]. The rationale is to take multiple simulation models, glued together into a hierarchical structure, each one with a specific task and working at a different level of detail [8].…”

“…Based on this use case, it is confirmed that the ad-hoc wireless networking technologies do represent a principle tool to deploy smart services over decentralized countrysides. Moreover, the performance evaluation confirms the viability of utilizing multi-level simulation for simulating large scale IoT environments.Keywords: Simulation, Smart cities, Internet of Things, Multi-level Simulation, Parallel And Distributed Simulation (PADS) 0 Some parts of the research work described in this paper previously appeared in [1,2,3]. This paper is an extensively revised and extended version of the previous work in which more than 30% is new material.…”

“…In real deployment scenarios, many possible configurations of IoT networks are possible. Devices connectivity is influenced by their geographical location, distribution, communication and network capabilities [1]. IoT simulation is necessary for both quantitative and qualitative aspects.…”