Microservice Communication for IoT-based Systems. Architecture Review and Performance Test

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18372/1990-5548.74.17311

Keywords:

internet of things, communication protocols, performance evaluating, microservice communication, MQTT, HTTP, AMQP, GRPC

Abstract

One of the most important things in IoT system development is the right communication technologies and protocols. Communication of modern IoT systems can be divided into two main parts: device-to-cloud communication and communication between cloud microservices (application level). In this study, the authors designed a test-system environment for evaluating the performance of the existing transmitting protocols for the cloud microservices communication. The proposed environment allows emulate of IoT systems with low network latency which allows evaluating and comparing protocols performance. The authors provide tests for the most popular application-level protocols: HTTP, MQTT, AMQP, and GRPC. The performance evaluation was performed based on such metrics: throughput, concurrency, scalability, transmitting size, and init connection time. The obtained experimental results and testing environment can be used for the efficient design of microservice communication.

Author Biographies

Ihor Zakutynskyi, National Aviation University, Kyiv, Ukraine

PhD student

Radio Electronic Devices and Systems Department

Faculty of Air-navigation, Electronics and Telecommunications

Ihor Rabodzei, National Aviation University, Kyiv, Ukraine

Master's

Department of Information Technology Security

Faculty of Cyber Security, Computer and Software Engineering

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Published

2022-12-29

Issue

Vol. 4 No. 74 (2022)

Section

TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND RADIO ENGINEERING

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