Héctor IoT Testing Framework
A framework designed to run experiments and application test on real and emulated IoT environments. Paper to the code available here: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3368235.3368832
Supported platforms:
- Apache Kafka
- Apache Flink
- Flink fork for edge
OS-Dependencies:
- Linux operating system (on all machines)
- dnsmasq
- qemu
- qemu-system-arm (and others if required by virtual machine)
- openssh (on all machines)
- iproute2 (on all machines)
- timesyncd (on all machines)
- Recommended: ntp server in testbed topology
Python-Dependencies:
- Python 3.7
- requests Python module
Other dependencies:
- Properly prepared VM images
- Necessary files for qemu emulation (kernel, device tree)
- Copy bridge.conf to /etc/qemu/ that includes "allow br0" (or whatever interface you want to use)
How To
- To use the framework import iot_api.py
- Configure experiments using a .properties file and Python code (examples can be found in the framework folder)
- For virtual testbeds, prepared disk images must be available (RSA key needs to be installed, JRE must be installed and if needed Apache Flink too)
- More information on how to use the API can be found in the docs
- Flink and Kafka folders are part of the project but can also be replaced by newer versions
Future Work
- Include automatic generation of VMs into NS3 setups
- Add Microcontroller support
- Add automatic setup of docker testbench
- Flink data graphs to mirror topology
- Add Kafka/Flink combinations, where Kafka producers run on VMs and Flink consumes on local host