Deployment planning of components in heterogeneous environments

A distribution manager configured to:

• determine one or more deployment plans, to service execution environments, of component services associated with a composite service associated with an analysis of data generated by one or more data sources, the composite service including an ordering of execution of the associated component services for the analysis of the data, at least one of the service execution environments located at a first network node included in the device layer and at least one other one of the service execution environments located at a second network node included in the middleware layer;
• determine an evaluation of each of the deployment plans of the component services based on a first metric associating one or more weighted values with a consumption by the each deployment plan of one or more respective resources associated with each of the first and second network nodes and on a second metric associating one or more weighted values with a measure of connection availability of one or more network links included in a communication path between the first and second network nodes;
• and
• determine a recommendation including one or more of the deployment plans based on the evaluation.

A method comprising:

• determining one or more deployment plans, to service execution environments, of component services associated with a composite service associated with an analysis of data obtained from one or more data sources, the composite service including an ordering of execution of the associated component services for the analysis of the data, at least one of the service execution environments located at a first network node associated with a device layer and at least one other one of the service execution environments located at a second network node associated with a middleware layer that includes a request handling layer and a device handling layer;
• determining an evaluation of each of the deployment plans of the component services based on a first metric associating one or more weighted values with a consumption by the each deployment plan of one or more respective resources associated with each of the first and second network nodes and on a second metric associating one or more weighted values with a measure of connection availability of one or more network links included in a communication path between the first and second network nodes;
• and
• determining a recommendation including one or more of the deployment plans based on the evaluation.