云雾混合计算改进远洋渔船物联网系统通讯质量

    Improving communication quality of internet of things for pelagic fishing vessel by blended fog computing and cloud computing

    • 摘要: 远洋渔船上不断增加的船载智能设备和传感器增大了对网络通讯带宽和流量的要求,目前船岸间通讯的高昂费用和带宽限制成为整个系统的瓶颈。该文在远洋渔船作业系统中引入云雾混合计算架构。研究以云计算为基本架构,采用面向服务的构架,提供可靠和安全的数据存储中心,降低了对用户端的设备要求,利于不同设备间的数据与应用共享;同时,利用船载设备的计算和存储能力,采用雾计算架构的设备固件更新分发机制获取最少必要固件资源后在船载网络内部进行推送和更新,并利用船载传感网络雾计算模型在船载网络内部存储和压缩传感器环境数据,以降低船岸之间的数据通讯量。研究证明,云雾混合计算架构在保证船岸数据信息交互一体化的同时明显降低了对数据通讯带宽的要求,减少了网络流量。在测试期内,开富号各计算节点及传感设备固件更新文件数据量降低为传统架构的15.13%,传感器发往云端的报文数据量降低为传统架构的4.75%。参考卫星宽带流量套餐费用计算(1 MB费用约为10美元,2014年标准),在该时间段内,仅"开富号"一条船舶约节约7 500美元,每年能节约通讯费36 000美元,具有一定的经济效益。研究实践证明云雾混合计算有利于改善远洋渔船物联网系统通讯质量。

       

      Abstract: Abstract: The communication bandwidth from pelagic fishing vessel to shore was unable to cope with the increasing needs of smart devices and sensors on vessel. Fog computing and cloud computing were combined to solve this problem effectively in operating system of pelagic fishing vessel. Cloud computing could be used as the basic framework of system. Fog computing could be used as model in the local area network and sensor network on vessel. This mixed computing architectures could effectively play the advantages of each other and have a complementary effect. In research, cloud computing was taken as basic framework of operating system of pelagic fishing vessel, and service-oriented architecture service component was used to provide a reliable and safe data storage center, which could reduce the equipment requirements for client and share data and applications between different devices. There were two sources for service components. One part came from the encapsulation of original system function and was released through the network via the standards such as simple object access protocol, web services description language, universal description discovery and integration, et al. . It could effectively protect the investment. Other parts were new service components facing new requirements, which were packaged by extensible web service and supported open, dynamic interoperability model. The standard cloud computing framework increased the demand for network bandwidth. For the data volume of firmware update and message sent by sensors occupied larger proportion of communications from vessel to shore, this paper also studied equipment firmware distribution mechanism and shipboard sensor network computation model based on fog computing in order to reduce ship shore data traffic. With the aid of computing and storage capacity of shipboard equipment, the firmware distribution mechanism changed the traditional way that each device got update files from the cloud directly, pushed and updated the firmware between smart devices and sensors in local area network of vessel. This paper also studied shipboard sensor network computation model based on fog computing. For shore-based command center just was focused on changes or change tendency of message sent by sensors, the system could reduce the amount of data transmission by send filtered date only. Smart devices with computing and storage capacity could be used to select and calculate message data before they were sent to cloud by sensors in vessel, which reduced the amount of communication with high monitoring accuracy. Practice has proved that cloud-fog mixed computing architectures could not only ensure interactive integration of information from vessel to shore, but also significantly reduce the requirement for data communication bandwidth and the network traffic. During the practice period, from March 15 to May 31 in 2014, the data volume of firmware update file of smart devices and sensors was 250.905 MB, the actual firmware update communication flow was 37.175 MB. Firmware update data decreased to 14.81% of the traditional architecture. At the same time, the data volume of cumulative message produced by 27 temperature sensors was 571.63 MB, and the actual data volume of message sent from vessel to shore was 27.16 MB after selection and calculation, so message data volume reduced to 4.75%. In this period, about 7500 were saved. According to this calculation, each boat can save communication cost by 36 000 each year and the costs of communication were markedly reduced. The empirical research obtained obvious effect on a pelagic fishing vessel named Kaifu.

       

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