Network of Things Engineering (NoTE) Lab

This book provides a hands-on experience in software and hardware engineering of IoT devices in edge and cloud computing systems, by putting in practice state-of-the-art concepts of hardware devices, networking and computing software. It proposes a Network of Things Engineering (NoTE) Lab, with seven hands-on lab modules covering topics ranging from “Interfacing sensors and actuators” and “Connecting IoT and Edge with MQTT" to “Data pipelining in cloud computing”. All tools and software used in the NoTE Lab are free and open source, and available to the readers. Specifically, Arduino-based boards that support a variety of low-cost sensors and actuators are used in IoT context. In edge computing, NoTE Lab implements off-the-shelf single board computers, Raspberry Pis with corresponding software and hardware. For cloud, well-known and widely used cloud computing open-source tools (e.g., Kubernetes) are deployed, where readers can learn the basics of monitoring and managing containersin cloud computing. Three communication protocols are used in the end-to-end setup, including MQTT, AMQP and HTTP. This lab book is a "must experiment with" for anybody in academia and industry participating in the fascinating IoT-edge-cloud continuum development. 

Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. NoteLab setup requirements.- Chapter 3. Lab 0 - Getting started.- Chapter 4. Lab 1 - Interfacing sensors and actuators.- Chapter 5. Lab 2 - Connecting IoT and Edge with MQTT.- Chapter 6. Lab 3 - Connecting edge and cloud tools with AMQP.- Chapter 7. Lab 4 - Connecting edge and cloud tools with REST HTTP.- Chapter 8. Lab 5 - Prototyping data connectors.- Chapter 9. Lab 6 - Integrating sensors and actuators with edge and cloud tools.- Chapter 10. Lab 7 - Network-of-Things final setup. 

Admela Jukan is Chair Professor in Communication Networks at TUBraunschweig. Prior to that, she worked in academia and industry, in the USA and Canada. She is Fellow of the IEEE and recipient of multiple industrial and research community awards. Admela received her Dr.tech. degree (cum laude) in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Technische Universität Wien, M.Sc. degree in Information Technologies from the Politecnico di Milano, Italy, and her Dipl. -Ing. degree from the Fakultet Elektrotehnike i Racunarstva (FER), in Zagreb, Croatia.  

Xavi Masip-Bruin is Full Professor at the Computer Architecture Department of the UPC and Director of the Center for Advanced Network Architectures (CRAAX). His research activity has driven several research contracts with public and industrial sectors, two start-ups exploiting technology transfer, several scientific contributions, and has been awarded with an IBM Faculty Award in 2016 for his contributions in the fog/edge/cloud computing field. Xavi Masip received his Telecommunication Engineering degree (B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D.) from UPC in Barcelona, Spain.

Jasenka Dizdarevi´c obtained her B.Sc. and M.Sc. engineering degrees in Telecommunications Engineering from Faculty of Electrical Engineering in Sarajevo, Bosnia, and Herzegovina. She is currently pursuing her Ph.D. (Dr.-Ing.) degree at Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany. Her main research focus is in the area of application layer protocols communication protocols, its performance analysis, and experimentations. Jasenka is the main hardware and protocol architect in NoTE Lab.

Francisco Carpio received his M.Sc. and B.Sc. degrees in Telecommunications Engineering from Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Spain. He is currently pursuing his Ph.D. (Dr.-Ing.) degree at Technische Universität Braunschweig. He is Active Developer Contributor to the open source community and works in the area of optimizations and architecture design of IoT, edge, and cloud computing systems. He is the main software architect in NoTE Lab.