Enabling wireless ad hoc edge systems with yggdrasil

Pedro Ákos Costa, André Rosa, João Leitão

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Abstract

Wireless ad hoc networks were extensively studied in the past given their potential for scalability, ease of deployment, and suitability for scenarios where no infrastructure is available. Considering the recent relevance of applications, particularly in the Internet of Things (IoT) and edge computing domains, revisiting these networks becomes a necessity, as to develop novel distributed applications. Distributed applications are highly complex as they require multiple services and abstractions supported by a wide range of distributed protocols, specially in such adverse domains. To simplify the development of applications in ad hoc networks, in this paper we present Yggdrasil, a novel framework and middleware specifically tailored for the development and execution of distributed applications and associated protocols using commodity devices in such networks. Yggdrasil provides a simple yet effective development environment, which is achieved by combining an event driven programming model with a multi-threaded execution environment that shield the programmer from concurrency issues. A fully functional prototype was developed in C and experimentally evaluated using a fleet of 24 Raspberry Pis.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication35th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, SAC 2020
PublisherACM - Association for Computing Machinery
Pages2129-2136
Number of pages8
ISBN (Electronic)9781450368667
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 30 Mar 2020
Event35th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, SAC 2020 - Brno, Czech Republic
Duration: 30 Mar 20203 Apr 2020

Publication series

NameProceedings of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing

Conference

Conference35th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, SAC 2020
Country/TerritoryCzech Republic
CityBrno
Period30/03/203/04/20

Keywords

  • Distributed protocols
  • Framework
  • Wireless ad hoc networks

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