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ECSA 2020
Mon 14 - Fri 18 September 2020 L'Aquila, Italy

Many enterprise IoT application scenarios, such as connected cars, smart cities, and cloud-connected industrial plants require distributed MQTT brokers to achieve high scalability and availability. With a market of over 20 MQTT brokers, it is hard for software architects to make a good selection. Existing MQTT comparisons often include only non-distributed brokers, focus exclusively on performance, or are difficult to generalize. We compared three distributed MQTT brokers for performance, scalability, resilience, security, extensibility, and usability in an enterprise IoT scenario deployed to an edge gateway cluster. We found that EMQX provided the best performance (28K msg/s), while only HiveMQ showed no message loss in our test scenario. VerneMQ offers similar features as the other brokers but is fully available as open source. The paper includes decision guidance for software architects, listing six major decision points regarding MQTT brokers.

Thu 17 Sep

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09:30 - 10:30
S5: Industry Track: Architecting contemporary distributed systemsIndustry Program at ECSA 2020 Teams Channel
Chair(s): Anton Jansen Philips, Olaf Zimmermann University of Applied Sciences of Eastern Switzerland (OST)

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09:30
20m
Determining Microservice Boundaries: A Case Study Using Static and Dynamic Software AnalysisIndustry Track
Industry Program
Tiago Matias Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, Portugal, Filipe Figueiredo Correia University of Porto, Jonas Fritzsch Institute of Software Technology, University of Stuttgart / University of Applied Sciences Reutlingen, Justus Bogner Institute of Software Technology, University of Stuttgart, Hugo Sereno Ferreira FEUP, Universidade do Porto, André Restivo LIACC, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal
09:50
20m
IAS: an IoT Architectural Self-adaptation FrameworkIndustry Track
Industry Program
Mahyar T. Moghaddam UnivAQ - INRIA, Eric Rutten INRIA, Philippe Lalanda University of Grenoble Alpes, Guillaume GIRAUD RTE
10:10
20m
A Comparison of MQTT Brokers for Distributed IoT Edge ComputingIndustry Track
Industry Program
Heiko Koziolek ABB Corporate Research, Sten Grüner ABB Corporate Research, Julius Rückert ABB Corporate Research
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