SimulatorBridger

A simulator for osmotic and 6G smart-city architectures.

SimulatorBridger simulates the Presentation and the Session layer of an osmotic architecture where IoT devices are communicating directly to the cloud. Differently from other simulators, the IoT devices are not meant to be static, but are travelling within a Smart-City scenario. We are currently investigating on the possibility of tracking down patients on life-support and ambulances sending data within a Smart-City environment (Almutairi et al., 2024): this idea got us a Best Paper Award at eHPWAS’24.

An external tool generates the vehicular traces.

SimulatorBridger injects this information to generate communications patterns as soon as a vehicle approaches an Edge node.

The Central Agent orchestrates different Edge subnetworks so to balance the communication times.

The principle of the simulator is quite easy: the simulator takes as a input the cars' position in time as an input (left), for then injecting such information to a specific agent within the simulation interacting with the communication infrastructure (center) governed by a central agent (right) (Almutairi et al., 2023).

The simulator enables testing a network infrastructure over multiple osmotic configurations (Almutairi et al., 2024), several different packet routing algorithms (Gillgallon et al., 2024), while both considering both vehicular traces (Almutairi et al., 2023) as well as simplistic trace counting (Almutairi et al., 2024).

Using the simulator is quite easy: all you have to do is to manually set the .yaml file configurations and use the simulator code directly from Java by using a code similar to the following:

class MyClass {
	public static void main(String[] args) {
           // TODO
	}
}

If you ar an unyielding Python simp, you can still invoke our simulator via JPype.

References

2024

Best Paper Award

Approximating Real-Time IoT Interaction Through Connection Counting: A QoS Perspective

Reham Almutairi, Rohin Gillgallon, Giacomo Bergami, and 1 more author

In 2024 20th International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications (WiMob), Apr 2024

Bib HTML

@inproceedings{simbridger2,
  author = {Almutairi, Reham and Gillgallon, Rohin and Bergami, Giacomo and Morgan, Graham},
  booktitle = {2024 20th International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications (WiMob)},
  title = {Approximating Real-Time IoT Interaction Through Connection Counting: A QoS Perspective},
  year = {2024},
  volume = {},
  number = {},
  pages = {260-265},
  keywords = {Wireless communication;Performance evaluation;Patient monitoring;Quality of service;Real-time systems;Internet of Things;Resource management;Reliability;Optimization;Mobile computing;IoT;Healthcare Transportation;Traffic Simulators;Patient Monitoring},
  doi = {10.1109/WiMob61911.2024.10770322},
  dimensions = {true},
}

Testing Routing Strategies by Simulating the Mobile IoT Edge/Cloud Continuum

Rohin Gillgallon, Giacomo Bergami, and Graham Morgan

In IEEE International Smart Cities Conference, ISC2 2024, Pattaya, Thailand, Apr 2024

Bib

@inproceedings{ISC224,
  author = {Gillgallon, Rohin and Bergami, Giacomo and Morgan, Graham},
  title = {Testing Routing Strategies by Simulating the Mobile IoT Edge/Cloud Continuum},
  booktitle = {{IEEE} International Smart Cities Conference, {ISC2} 2024, Pattaya,
                    Thailand},
  publisher = {{IEEE}},
  year = {2024},
  dimensions = {true},
}

SimulatorBridgerDfT: A Real-Data Simulator for IoT-Osmotic Interactions

Reham Almutairi, Giacomo Bergami, and Graham Morgan

In Proceedings of the 2024 12th International Conference on Information Technology: IoT and Smart City, Dec 2024

Bib

@inproceedings{icit,
  author = {Almutairi, Reham and Bergami, Giacomo and Morgan, Graham},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2024 12th International Conference on Information
                    Technology: IoT and Smart City},
  title = {SimulatorBridgerDfT: A Real-Data Simulator for IoT-Osmotic Interactions},
  year = {2024},
  volume = {},
  number = {},
  series = {ICIT  (in press)},
  month = dec,
  dimensions = {true},
}

2023

Platform for Energy Efficiency Monitoring Electrical Vehicle in Real World Traffic Simulation

Reham Almutairi, Giacomo Bergami, Graham Morgan, and 1 more author

In 2023 IEEE 25th Conference on Business Informatics (CBI), Jun 2023

Abs Bib HTML

The increasing popularity and attention in VANETs has prompted researchers to develop accurate and realistic simulation tools. The realistic simulation for VANETs is a challenging task as road networks have high mobility of vehicles. Many efforts have been made in the VANET simulation area to meet the need for coupling network and road traffic simulation. However, none of them permits simulation based on IoT infrastructure. In this work, we are bridging the IoT simulation with the traffic simulation by proposing a novel simulator, Simulator-Bridger. To achieve this, our proposed simulator bridges IoTSim-OsmosisRES with Sumo, a traffic simulator, where the former had to be extended to support mobility vehicles. We substantiate the suitability of our proposed approach by showing how state-of-the-art IoT simulators can manage communication-network traffic information as generated by a real-life urban mobility scenario through VANET simulators.
@inproceedings{simbridger1, author = {Almutairi, Reham and Bergami, Giacomo and Morgan, Graham and Gillgallon, Rohin}, booktitle = {2023 IEEE 25th Conference on Business Informatics (CBI)}, title = {Platform for Energy Efficiency Monitoring Electrical Vehicle in Real World Traffic Simulation}, year = {2023}, volume = {}, number = {}, pages = {1-8}, keywords = {Couplings;Roads;Vehicular ad hoc networks;Traffic control;Road traffic;Energy efficiency;Task analysis;Traffic Simultors;VANET;IoT}, doi = {10.1109/CBI58679.2023.10187450}, issn = {2378-1971}, month = jun, dimensions = {true}, }