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WebAssembly Modules as Lightweight Containers for Liquid IoT Applications

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Going all the way to IoT with web technologies opens up the door to isomorphic IoT system architectures, which deliver flexible deployment and live migration of code between any device in the overall system. In this vision paper, we propose using WebAssembly to implement lightweight containers and deliver the required portability. Our long-term vision is to use the technology to support developers of liquid IoT applications offering seamless, hassle-free use of multiple devices.

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    https://www.w3.org/TR/wot-architecture/Overview.html, accessed Oct. 21, 2020.

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    https://iot.mozilla.org/wot/, accessed Oct. 21, 2020.

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    https://github.com/appcypher/awesome-wasm-runtimes, accessed Jan. 6, 2020.

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    https://github.com/wasm3/wasm3/blob/master/docs/Performance.md, accessed Jan. 5, 2020.

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    https://medium.com/wasmer/benchmarking-webassembly-runtimes-18497ce0d76e, accessed Oct. 21, 2020.

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    https://github.com/bytecodealliance/wasm-micro-runtime, accessed Oct. 21, 2020.

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    Niko Mäkitalo, Tommi Mikkonen, Victor Bankowski, Paulius Daubaris & Risto Mikkola

  2. University of Lugano, Lugano, Switzerland

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Mäkitalo, N. et al. (2021). WebAssembly Modules as Lightweight Containers for Liquid IoT Applications. In: Brambilla, M., Chbeir, R., Frasincar, F., Manolescu, I. (eds) Web Engineering. ICWE 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12706. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-74296-6_25

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