pct960 / vermillion

A high-performance scalable IoT middleware for smart cities

Vermillion is a high performance, scalable and secure IoT middleware platform developed using Vertx. It is a middleware stack which focuses primarily on the compute layer in a smart city IoT deployment. One of the chief goals of Vermillion is to enable seamless data exchange between data producers and consumers in a smart city.

Performance

Performance has been the key consideration while developing Vermillion. Intial results show that the middleware was able to handle at least 130,000 HTTPS requests/sec across 12 compute nodes. We suspect that this is not its true limit (and that it might actually be much higher), since a plateau was never reached in the results graph. The test tool that we used (Tsung) was not able to accurately report numbers for higher number of users and connections.

A detailed white paper on this project published in Arxiv can be found here. The following is a graph depicting results from the 12-node test:

Performance of the 12-node deployment (6 brokers + 6 proxies)

Single-node Quickstart

If the OS is Ubuntu or debian based

• Simply run

  curl -LJ# https://vermillion-install.herokuapp.com/ | bash

For other operating systems

1. Clone the repository

   git clone https://github.com/rbccps-iisc/vermillion
   cd vermillion

2. Install the following dependencies manually

   • docker
   • docker-compose

3. Also install the following dependencies if the tests need to be run

   • requests
   • urllib3
   • pika==0.13.0

4. Start the installation

   ./single-node/quick_install

5. Test the middleware using

   ./tests/single-node functional -d 1 -a 1