Nomadic applications traveling in the fog

Journal
Lecture notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering  
Volume
189
Start Page
151
End Page
161
Citation
EAI International Conference on ICT Infrastructures and Services for Smart Cities (IISSC 2017) and International Conference on Cloud, Networking for IoT systems (CN4IoT 2017)
Contribution to Conference
2nd EAI International Conference on ICT Infrastructures and Services for Smart Cities, IISSC 2017 and 2nd International Conference on Cloud, Networking for IoT systems, CN4IoT 2017  
Publisher DOI
10.1007/978-3-319-67636-4_17
Scopus ID
2-s2.0-85034073882
The emergence of the Internet of Things introduces new challenges like network congestion or data privacy. However, it also provides opportunities, such as computational resources close to data sources, which can be pooled to realize Fogs to run software applications on the edge of the network. To foster this new type of resources, we revisit the concept of mobile agents and evolve them to so-called nomadic applications, which allow addressing vital challenges for the Internet of Things. In this paper, we propose a system design to realize nomadic applications and discuss several challenges that need to be addressed in order to apply them to real-world scenarios.
Subjects
Cloud computing
Fog computing
Internet of Things
Mobile agents