A new paper on the DiaSwarm DSL for orchestrating sensors in-the-large and its IoT applications has been accepted in the journal Personal and Ubiquitous Computing at Springer. This is an extended version of a previous Best Paper at UIC'16. It introduces some extensions to the DiaSwarm language and some new applications to personalized IoT services, enabled by these language extensions.
Abstract : Masses of sensors are being deployed at the scale of cities to manage parking spaces, transportation infrastructures to monitor traffic, and campuses of buildings to reduce energy consumption. These large-scale infrastructures become a reality for citizens via applications that orchestrate sensors to deliver high-value, innovative services. These applications critically rely on the processing of large amounts of data to analyze situations, inform users, and control devices. This paper proposes a design-driven approach to developing orchestrating applications for masses of sensors that integrates parallel processing of large amounts of data. Specifically, an application design exposes declarations that are used to generate a programming framework based on the MapReduce programming model. We have developed a prototype of our approach, using Apache Hadoop. We applied it to a case study and obtained significant speedups by parallelizing computations over twelve nodes. In doing so, we demonstrate that our design-driven approach allows to abstract over implementation details, while exposing architectural properties used to generate high-performance code for processing large datasets. Furthermore, we show that this high-performance support enables new, personalized services in a smart city. Finally, we discuss the expressiveness of our design language, identify some limitations, and present language extensions.
