Citation
Elizabeth Latronico, Edward A. Lee, Marten Lohstroh, Chris Shaver, Armin Wasicek, Matt Weber. "A Vision of Swarmlets". IEEE Internet Computing, Special Issue on Building Internet of Things Software, 19(2):20-29, March 2015.

Abstract
"Swarmlets" are applications and services that leverage networked sensors and actuators, likely integrating them with networking services, cloud computing, and mobile devices. This paper describes a way to construct swarmlets by composing "accessors," which are wrappers for sensors, actuators, and services, that export an actor interface. We show how an actor semantics for the interface to accessors provides ways to compose them with disciplined and understandable concurrency models, while hiding from the swarmlet the details of the mechanisms by which the accessor provides the sensor data, controls the actuator, or accesses the service. This architecture is able to leverage the enormous variety of mechanisms that have recently emerged for such interactions, including for example HTTP, Websockets, CoAP, MQTT, and many others. Recognizing that these standards have emerged because of an enormous variability of requirements for bandwidth, latency, and security, accessors embrace heterogeneity instead of attempting to homogenize.

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• SwarmletVisionV2.pdf · application/x-octet-stream · 269 kbytes
• https://www.src.org/library/publication/p070897/. (Link to paper on SRC website.)
• http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=7006378
• http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/MIC.2015.17
• http://escholarship.org/uc/item/7p53t9x5. (link to eScholarship site)

• HTML

  Elizabeth Latronico, Edward A. Lee, Marten Lohstroh, Chris
  Shaver, Armin Wasicek, Matt Weber. <a
  href="http://www.terraswarm.org/pubs/332.html"
  >A Vision of Swarmlets</a>, <i>IEEE Internet
  Computing, Special Issue on Building Internet of Things
  Software</i>, 19(2):20-29, March 2015.

• Plain text

  Elizabeth Latronico, Edward A. Lee, Marten Lohstroh, Chris
  Shaver, Armin Wasicek, Matt Weber. "A Vision of
  Swarmlets". <i>IEEE Internet Computing, Special
  Issue on Building Internet of Things Software</i>,
  19(2):20-29, March 2015.

• BibTeX

  @article{LatronicoLeeLohstrohShaverWasicekWeber15_VisionOfSwarmlets,
      author = {Elizabeth Latronico and Edward A. Lee and Marten
                Lohstroh and Chris Shaver and Armin Wasicek and
                Matt Weber},
      title = {A Vision of Swarmlets},
      journal = {IEEE Internet Computing, Special Issue on Building
                Internet of Things Software},
      volume = {19},
      number = {2},
      pages = {20-29},
      month = {March},
      year = {2015},
      abstract = {"Swarmlets" are applications and services that
                leverage networked sensors and actuators, likely
                integrating them with networking services, cloud
                computing, and mobile devices. This paper
                describes a way to construct swarmlets by
                composing "accessors," which are wrappers for
                sensors, actuators, and services, that export an
                actor interface. We show how an actor semantics
                for the interface to accessors provides ways to
                compose them with disciplined and understandable
                concurrency models, while hiding from the swarmlet
                the details of the mechanisms by which the
                accessor provides the sensor data, controls the
                actuator, or accesses the service. This
                architecture is able to leverage the enormous
                variety of mechanisms that have recently emerged
                for such interactions, including for example HTTP,
                Websockets, CoAP, MQTT, and many others.
                Recognizing that these standards have emerged
                because of an enormous variability of requirements
                for bandwidth, latency, and security, accessors
                embrace heterogeneity instead of attempting to
                homogenize. },
      URL = {http://terraswarm.org/pubs/332.html}
  }
  

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