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ThingsMigrate: Platform-Independent Migration of Stateful JavaScript IoT Applications

Authors Julien Gascon-Samson, Kumseok Jung, Shivanshu Goyal, Armin Rezaiean-Asel, Karthik Pattabiraman

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Julien Gascon-Samson
  • Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of British Columbia, 2332 Main Mall, Vancouver, BC, Canada, V6T 1Z4
Kumseok Jung
  • Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of British Columbia, 2332 Main Mall, Vancouver, BC, Canada, V6T 1Z4
Shivanshu Goyal
  • Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of British Columbia, 2332 Main Mall, Vancouver, BC, Canada, V6T 1Z4
Armin Rezaiean-Asel
  • Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of British Columbia, 2332 Main Mall, Vancouver, BC, Canada, V6T 1Z4
Karthik Pattabiraman
  • Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of British Columbia, 2332 Main Mall, Vancouver, BC, Canada, V6T 1Z4

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This work is supported by a research gift from Intel, a Discovery grant and Post-Doctoral Fellowship from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), and funding from the Institute for Computing, Information and Cognitive Systems (ICICS) at the University of British Columbia (UBC).

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Julien Gascon-Samson, Kumseok Jung, Shivanshu Goyal, Armin Rezaiean-Asel, and Karthik Pattabiraman. ThingsMigrate: Platform-Independent Migration of Stateful JavaScript IoT Applications. In 32nd European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2018). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 109, pp. 18:1-18:33, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2018)
https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.ECOOP.2018.18

Abstract

The Internet of Things (IoT) has gained wide popularity both in academic and industrial contexts. As IoT devices become increasingly powerful, they can run more and more complex applications written in higher-level languages, such as JavaScript. However, by their nature, IoT devices are subject to resource constraints, which require applications to be dynamically migrated between devices (and the cloud). Further, IoT applications are also becoming more stateful, and hence we need to save their state during migration transparently to the programmer. In this paper, we present ThingsMigrate, a middleware providing VM-independent migration of stateful JavaScript applications across IoT devices. ThingsMigrate captures and reconstructs the internal JavaScript program state by instrumenting application code before run time, without modifying the underlying Virtual Machine (VM), thus providing platform and VM-independence. We evaluated ThingsMigrate against standard benchmarks, and over two IoT platforms and a cloud-like environment. We show that it can successfully migrate even highly CPU-intensive applications, with acceptable overheads (about 30%), and supports multiple migrations.

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ACM Subject Classification
  • Computer systems organization → Distributed architectures
  • Computer systems organization → Embedded and cyber-physical systems
  • Computer systems organization → Dependable and fault-tolerant systems and networks
  • Software and its engineering → Middleware
  • Software and its engineering → Process management
  • Software and its engineering → Functional languages
  • Software and its engineering → Language features
  • Software and its engineering → Publish-subscribe / event-based architectures
Keywords
  • JavaScript
  • Code Migration
  • Closures
  • IoT
  • Node.js

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