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