Edge Topology Designer

Allows creation of topologies for RTEF [1]. The created ETD file is compatible with RTEF. Based on jGraphX library.

Features:

• Automatically assign unique ID for each node.
• Drag and drop nodes to create links between them.
• Drag and drop a node to create a new node based of the same type.
• Analysis tool to measure the shortest distance between nodes.
• Add notes, or free-text to visualise in the editor.
• Save as PNG or as a plain topology format.
• Print the topology.
• Ability to set an automatic layout (Hierarchical, Stack, Circle, etc.) analysing connections.
• Greate groups to define sub-topologies as subdiagrams.

See a 3-minute YouTube Video for major features:

Download

Get latest executable from here.

Execution from Source

main method is in:

com/mxgraph/app/designer/TopologyDesigner.java

Plain Topology Format

# Defining available Edge Servers
### Node, ID, Server Name, Optional Comment

Node, 1, Edge Server 1, Server 1
Node, 2, Edge Server 2, Server 2
#### 192.168.1.3 is an example IP to reach Edge Server 3 and 83 is the Port that is listened by the RTEF
Node, 3, Edge Server 3, @192.168.1.3:83

# Defining available End Devices
Node, 10, ED 1, End Device 1
Node, 20, ED 2
Node, 30, ED 3
Node, 40, ED 4

# Adding connections
### Connection, From Node ID, To Node ID, Latency, Opt. Comment

## Edge Server to Edge Server connections
Connection, 1, 2, 1.0, My connection comment
Connection, 2, 3, 1.0, This connection will be auto-established if AUTOCONNECT is true 

## End Device to Edge Server connections
Connection, 10, 1, 1.0
Connection, 20, 1, 1.0
Connection, 30, 1, 1.0
Connection, 40, 2, 1.0

References

[1] Gezer, V and Ruskowski, M., An Extensible Real-Time Capable Server Architecture for Edge Computing, Sixth International Conference on Advances in Computing, Electronics and Communication - ACEC 2017, DOI: 10.15224/978-1-63248-138-2-15