Modeling and Simulating IoT Infrastructures

Philipp Zech, Karthik Vaidhyanathan, Likhith Kanigolla, Luca Rahm, Ruth Breu

2025

Abstract

Effective management and optimization of urban infrastructures necessitates scalable and accessible simulation frameworks. Modern BIM-based solutions present a promising avenue for novel construction projects; however, these solutions are often inapplicable to the extensive array of legacy infrastructures developed prior to the establishment of BIM as a construction standard. Commensurate with this, we present a new model-driven simulation approach for urban infrastructures that (i) utilizes a novel domain-specific modeling language (DSML) to represent both structural and behavioral characteristics of these infrastructures and (ii) employs the Discrete Event System Specification (DEVS) formalism for simulation purposes. Reframing urban infrastructures as IoT-based, event-driven systems facilitates efficient, hierarchical simulations of complex dynamic environments, including resource management and water networks. Simulation artifacts produced from the DSML through model-to-text generation are executed within the DEVS simulation framework. We validate our approach through a case study conducted at IIIT Hyderabad’s Smart City Living Lab, illustrating its capacity to identify optimization opportunities within urban infrastructures.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Zech P., Vaidhyanathan K., Kanigolla L., Rahm L. and Breu R. (2025). Modeling and Simulating IoT Infrastructures. In Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Simulation and Modeling Methodologies, Technologies and Applications - Volume 1: SIMULTECH; ISBN 978-989-758-759-7, SciTePress, pages 93-105. DOI: 10.5220/0013557400003970

in Bibtex Style

@conference{simultech25,
author={Philipp Zech and Karthik Vaidhyanathan and Likhith Kanigolla and Luca Rahm and Ruth Breu},
title={Modeling and Simulating IoT Infrastructures},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Simulation and Modeling Methodologies, Technologies and Applications - Volume 1: SIMULTECH},
year={2025},
pages={93-105},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0013557400003970},
isbn={978-989-758-759-7},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Simulation and Modeling Methodologies, Technologies and Applications - Volume 1: SIMULTECH
TI - Modeling and Simulating IoT Infrastructures
SN - 978-989-758-759-7
AU - Zech P.
AU - Vaidhyanathan K.
AU - Kanigolla L.
AU - Rahm L.
AU - Breu R.
PY - 2025
SP - 93
EP - 105
DO - 10.5220/0013557400003970
PB - SciTePress