Democratization of runtime verification for internet of things

Abstract

Internet of Things (IoT) devices have gained more prevalence in ambient assisted living (AAL) systems. Reliability of AAL systems is critical especially in assuring the safety and well-being of elderly people. Runtime verification (RV) is described as checking whether the observed behavior of a system conforms to its expected behavior. RV techniques generally involve heavy formal methods; thus, it is poorly utilized in the industry. Therefore, we propose a democratization of RV for IoT systems by presenting a model-based testing (MBT) approach. To enable modeling expected behaviors of an IoT system, we first describe an extension to a UML profile. Then, we capture the expected behavior of an interaction that is modeled on a Sequence Diagram (SD). Later, the expected behaviors are translated into runtime monitor statements expressed in Event-Processing Language (EPL), which are executed at the edge of the IoT network. We further demonstrate our contributions on a sample AAL system.