Early model-driven timing validation of IoT-compliant use cases

Abstract

Several IoT platforms, with support for a rich set of device libraries, facilitate rapid development of embedded IoT applications. But, none of the approaches deal with the analysis of performance characteristics. An example is the early timing validation of IoT use cases in specialized timing analysis tools. Addressing this gap, a generic workflow for a quick, early model-driven, system-level timing validation of IoT compliant hand-written code in specialized timing analysis tools, such as SymTA/S, is proposed in this paper. A prototype implementation of the workflow and its experimental evaluation in a novel, IoT-compliant real-time emission monitoring use case is presented. The main benefit of the proposed workflow is the early feedback regarding performance characteristics of the embedded IoT application, under varying timing constraints. © 2017 IEEE.