An Architectural Design Decision Model for Resilient IoT Application

The Internet of Things is a paradigm that refers to the ubiquitous presence around us of physical objects equipped with sensing, networking, and processing capabilities that allow them to cooperate with their environment to reach common goals. However, any threat affecting the availability of IoT applications can be crucial financially and for the safety of the physical integrity of users. This feature calls for IoT applications that remain operational and efficiently handle possible threats. However, designing an IoT application that can handle threats is challenging for stakeholders due to the high susceptibility to threats of IoT applications and the lack of modeling mechanisms that contemplate resilience as a first-class representation. In this paper, an architectural Design Decision Model for Resilient IoT applications is presented to reduce the difficulty of stakeholders in designing resilient IoT applications. Our approach is illustrated and demonstrates the value through the modeling of a case.