IoT Load Generator 🔥

Sometimes we tell lies, sometimes we prove we don't lie. Let's prove ourselves.

Introduction

This application gives a way for creating a load with MQTT, HTTP ... MQTT is a messaging protocol and various platforms work with it so creating a load with MQTT creates a way for testing different platforms.

LG has an executable version that you can run on your system with ease. Besides, it has a server version which has APIs that are listed here. In the server version reports about the status of each test's instance are emitted on the socket.io room which has the name I1820, with an event that has the name of its instance.

Transport

LG have an awesome way for customizing portocol named Transport. Transports give you a way for sending your generated data over your protocol with ease.

Generator

LG is fully customizable so you can generate data with your own structure and publish it on your own topic. For this LG has the Generator interface that is defined in generator/.

Running

You can run LG execuable version with following syntax:

lg --destination http://127.0.0.1:1883 --rate 1ms

In config.yml you can specifies generator configuration. If your destination has scheme http:// your transport will be HTTP and if it has mqtt:// your transport will be MQTT.

Use Cases 🕵️‍♂️

Set loraserver.io on fire

ABP

With this load generator, we try to put a load on loraserver.io and we get the following results.

generator:
  name: lora
  info:
    gateway:
      mac: "b827ebffff70c80a"
    keys:
      networkSkey: "DB56B6C3002A4763A79E64573C629D97"
      applicationSKey: "94B49CD7BC621BC46571D019640804AA"
    device:
      addr: "26011CF6"
messages:
  - 100: 6750
    101: 6606
    lat: 10
    lng: 10

Interval	Status
1s	Success
100ms	Success
10ms	Success
1ms	Fail

Set I1820 on fire

TTN (over HTTP)

With this load generator, we try to put a load on I1820 TTN Integration module in link component and we get the following results.

generator:
  name: ttn
  info:
    applicationName: fan
    applicationID: 5ba3f19c87a142b0a840fae0
    devEUI: 000AE31955C049FC
    deviceName: agrinode
token: ttnIStheBEST
messages:
  - count: "{{.Count}}"

These results show generated parsed information ratio (number of parsed data / number of received data) with send interval of data:

Interval	Accept Ratio
1s	100%
100ms	100%
10ms	100%
1ms	100%
100us	100%
10us	100%

Please consider that HTTP requests cannot get their response in 100us or lower interval so in these intervals there is no difference with 1ms interval.

Fanco (over MQTT)

With this load generator, we try to put a load on I1820 MQTT service in link component and we get the following results.

generator:
  name: fanco
  info:
    thingID: 5bbd104cefe940cb57dfeb76
token: 1BLzO2YYB1jH91pRB0cpeIdPMsM
messages:
  - count: "{{.Count}}"

These results show generated parsed information ratio (number of parsed data / number of received data) with send interval of data:

Interval	Accept Ratio
1s	100%
100ms	100%
10ms	100%
1ms	100%
100us	52.3809524%
10us	47.6190476%

Test System Specification

• 4 Core Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-5930K CPU @ 3.50GHz
• 8 Gb of RAM
• SSD