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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ECOOP.2018.18

ThingsMigrate: Platform-Independent Migration of Stateful JavaScript IoT Applications

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

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 109, 32nd European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2018)

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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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)

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@InProceedings{gasconsamson_et_al:LIPIcs.ECOOP.2018.18,
  author =	{Gascon-Samson, Julien and Jung, Kumseok and Goyal, Shivanshu and Rezaiean-Asel, Armin and Pattabiraman, Karthik},
  title =	{{ThingsMigrate: Platform-Independent Migration of Stateful JavaScript IoT Applications}},
  booktitle =	{32nd European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2018)},
  pages =	{18:1--18:33},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-079-8},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2018},
  volume =	{109},
  editor =	{Millstein, Todd},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ECOOP.2018.18},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-92236},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ECOOP.2018.18},
  annote =	{Keywords: JavaScript, Code Migration, Closures, IoT, Node.js}
}

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