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Design and Implementation of Ambient Intelligent Systems using Discrete Event Simulations

Authors:
Souhila Sehili
Laurent Capocchi
Jean-François Santucci

Keywords: IoT; Discrete-event; Simulation; Formalism; Assembly; Smart; Environment.

Abstract:
The Internet of Things (IoT) project enables rapid innovation in the area of Internet connected devices and associated cloud services. An IoT node can be defined as a flexible platform for interacting with real world objects and making data about those objects accessible through the Internet. Communication between nodes is discrete Event-oriented and the simulation process play an important role in defining assembly of nodes in such ambient systems. One of today’s challenges in the framework of ubiquitous computing concerns the design of such ambient systems. The main problem is to propose a management adapted to the composition of applications in ubiquitous computing. In this paper, we propose the definition of a modeling and simulation scheme based on a discrete-event formalism in order to specify at the very early phase of the design of an ambient system: (i) the behavior of the components involved in the ambient system to be implemented; (ii) the possibility to define a set of strategies that can be implemented in the execution machine. A pedagogical example concerning a concurrent access to a switchable on/off light has been modeled into the Python DEVSimPy environment in order to validate our approach.

Pages: 92 to 102

Copyright: Copyright (c) to authors, 2015. Used with permission.

Publication date: June 30, 2015

Published in: journal

ISSN: 1942-261x