Simulation of Agent-oriented Internet of Things Systems

The proliferation of everyday smart devices able to sense, process, communicate and/or actuate, is changing the way we interact with the world around us. These novel cyber-physical smart devices, or simply Smart Objects (SOs), are the fundamental building blocks of the Internet of Things (IoT), a global and highly dynamic ecosystem in which heterogeneous typologies of device networks seamlessly interoperate. Although the IoT component technologies and enabling computing paradigms are not totally new, the development and analysis of an IoT system is still a complex process. In this paper the ACOSO (Agent-based COoperative Smart Object) middleware and the Omnet++ platform have been used as means for the SObased IoT systems development/management and simulation. Indeed, on one hand ACOSO provides effective instruments and a simple programming model to realize both cyber-physical SOs and IoT systems. On the other hand, leveraging on the parallelism between SOs/agents and the Omnet++ network nodes, simulations of agent-oriented IoT systems in different scale scenarios have been defined and conducted. Keywords—Internet of Things; Smart Objects; ACOSO; Agentbased computing; Network simulation.