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EMMA

Distributed QoS-Aware MQTT Middleware

for Edge Computing Applications

Thomas Rausch, Stefan Nastic, Schahram Dustdar

TU WienDistributed Systems Group

http://dsg.tuwien.ac.at

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AWS IoT

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Subscribe to topic:/robot/arm

Publish “move x,y,z” to/robot/arm

Decoupled messaging

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Trust?!

Availability?!

End-to-end latency: ??ms!

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Edge-Enabled MOM

Data centers

Internet

Mobileedge

Extremeedge

IoT

Cloudlets

Message broker

Cloud-based MOM

Edge-enabled MOM

Scale

Proximity & Responsiveness

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▪ Popular platform for IoT– ISO standardized pub/sub protocol

– Low-bandwidth design

▪ Simple Protocol– CONNACK

– SUBSCRIBE(t), SUBACK(t)

– PUBLISH(t, msg)

– ...

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Static MQTT Topic Bridging

Local BrokerCentralBroker

InternalTopics

Staticconfig

Staticconfig

Cloud

M. Garcia, “How to Bridge Mosquitto MQTT Broker to AWS IoT”The Internet of Things on AWS -- Official Blog, 2016.https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/iot/how-to-bridge-mosquitto-mqtt-broker-to-aws-iot/

Edge

Topic Bridge

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Goals

▪ Decentralized messaging middleware

▪ Leverages edge resources to reduce latency

▪ Can handle mobile clients

▪ Can handle volatile resources

▪ Seamlessly integrates with IoT infrastructure

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EMMA MQTT Middleware

ClientGW

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GW

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Broker

Broker

Device

Mon

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otoc

olController

Bridging Tables

Gateway

Bridging Table

Reconfigura- tion Engine

REST Endpoints

Network monitor

Buffer out

Buffer in

MQTT Server

Discovery Service

https://git.dsg.tuwien.ac.at/emma/emma

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QoS Optimization & Balancing

0-2 ms

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5-10

PINGREQPINGRESP

Broker Gateway▪ Continuously monitor network QoS via simple UDP protocol

▪ For each client createlatency group to brokers

▪ Connect gateways toa broker in closest group

▪ Balance load betweenbrokers in same group

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Orchestration

:b1::b2::gateway::controller

SUBSCRIBE...

CONNECT

DISCONNECT

replaycontrolpackets

TCP connect

TCP open

updatenetwork

RECONACK(b2)

RECONREQ(b2)

:brokerA

:controller:gateway:client

CONNACKCONNACK

lookup

result(brokerA)

storepacket

CONNECT

CONNECT

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Evaluation

us-east eu-west

eu-central

BrokerGateway BrokerGateway

Controller

... ...

Gateway

Broker

98 ms 27 ms

85 ms

https://git.dsg.tuwien.ac.at/emma/pubsub-benchmark

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Controller

eu-west

eu-centralus-east

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Controller

<1 ms

98 ms

27 ms

85 ms

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Controller

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Controller

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Controller

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Controller

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Controller

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Controller

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Controller

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Message Loss

▪ Caused by subscriber mobility

▪ Guaranteed message delivery requires transactional reconnection

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More Results in the Paper

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Dipl.-Ing. (MSc)

Thomas RauschResearch Assistant

TU WienDistributed Systems GroupArgentinierstraße 8/194-02, 1040, Vienna, AustriaT: +43 1 58801 184 838E: [email protected]/staff/trausch

QoS Monitoring & Reconfiguration

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Related Work – P2P Pub/Sub

NCA’05

DEBS’05

MW’05

PODC’07

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State of the Art – Research

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State of the Art – The Real World

ScalAgent. JoramMQ, a distributed MQTT broker for the Internet of Things .White paper. 2014.