An Aspect-Oriented Strategy for Monitoring Smart Cities Platforms

• André Solino UFRN
• João Victor Lopes UFRN
• Thais Batista UFRN
• Everton Cavalcante UFRN
• Jorge Pereira UFRN
• Aluízio Rocha Neto UFRN

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5753/semish.2022.223200

Abstract

Smart city platforms typically offer important functionalities to ease application development. One of the characteristics of this scenario is related to the high volume of requests and the handled data, requiring monitoring of the underlying computing infrastructure on which smart city platforms and the developed applications are deployed to make them more scalable and keep their quality of service. This paper presents a non-invasive strategy to monitor smart city platforms. The proposed strategy relies on the aspect-oriented programming paradigm to monitor the computational infrastructure without intervening in the platform's implementation or generating coupling with the monitoring capabilities. This work also presents the implementation of the strategy and its instantiation for monitoring the Smart Geo Layers (SGeoL) platform.

Keywords: Monitoring, Smart Cities Plataforms, Aspect-oriented Development, SgeoL

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