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Experimentation as a service over semantically interoperable Internet of Things testbeds

Experimentation as a service over semantically interoperable Internet of Things testbeds
Experimentation as a service over semantically interoperable Internet of Things testbeds

Infrastructures enabling experimental assessment of Internet of Things (IoT) solutions are scarce. Moreover, such infrastructures are typically bound to a specific application domain, thus, not facilitating the testing of solutions with a horizontal approach. This paper presents a platform that supports Experimentation as s Service (EaaS) over a federation of IoT testbeds. This platform brings two major advances. Firstly, it leverages semantic web technologies to enable interoperability so that testbed agnostic access to the underlying facilities is allowed. Secondly, a set of tools ease both the experimentation workflow and the federation of other IoT deployments, independently of their domain of interest. Apart from the platform specification, the paper presents how this design has been actually instantiated into a cloud-based EaaS platform that has been used for supporting a wide variety of novel experiments targeting different research and innovation challenges. In this respect, the paper summarizes some of the experiences from these experiments and the key performance metrics that this instance of the platform has exhibited during the experimentation.

Experimentation, Internet of Things, Interoperability, Semantics, Testbeds
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Lanza, Jorge, Sanchez, Luis, Santana, Juan Ramon, Agarwal, Rachit, Kefalakis, Nikolaos, Grace, Paul, Elsaleh, Tarek, Zhao, Mengxuan, Tragos, Elias, Nguyen, Hung, Cirillo, Flavio, Steinke, Ronald and Soldatos, John (2018) Experimentation as a service over semantically interoperable Internet of Things testbeds. IEEE Access, 6, 51607-51625. (doi:10.1109/ACCESS.2018.2867452).

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Infrastructures enabling experimental assessment of Internet of Things (IoT) solutions are scarce. Moreover, such infrastructures are typically bound to a specific application domain, thus, not facilitating the testing of solutions with a horizontal approach. This paper presents a platform that supports Experimentation as s Service (EaaS) over a federation of IoT testbeds. This platform brings two major advances. Firstly, it leverages semantic web technologies to enable interoperability so that testbed agnostic access to the underlying facilities is allowed. Secondly, a set of tools ease both the experimentation workflow and the federation of other IoT deployments, independently of their domain of interest. Apart from the platform specification, the paper presents how this design has been actually instantiated into a cloud-based EaaS platform that has been used for supporting a wide variety of novel experiments targeting different research and innovation challenges. In this respect, the paper summarizes some of the experiences from these experiments and the key performance metrics that this instance of the platform has exhibited during the experimentation.

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Accepted/In Press date: 15 September 2018
e-pub ahead of print date: 17 September 2018
Keywords: Experimentation, Internet of Things, Interoperability, Semantics, Testbeds

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Local EPrints ID: 423823
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/423823
ISSN: 2169-3536
PURE UUID: fed6aed7-c7af-4419-9124-5a059ed29e7a
ORCID for Paul Grace: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-2363-0630

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Date deposited: 02 Oct 2018 16:30
Last modified: 05 Jun 2024 18:00

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Author: Jorge Lanza
Author: Luis Sanchez
Author: Juan Ramon Santana
Author: Rachit Agarwal
Author: Nikolaos Kefalakis
Author: Paul Grace ORCID iD
Author: Tarek Elsaleh
Author: Mengxuan Zhao
Author: Elias Tragos
Author: Hung Nguyen
Author: Flavio Cirillo
Author: Ronald Steinke
Author: John Soldatos

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