FocusStack: Orchestrating Edge Clouds Using Location-Based Focus of Attention
Brian Amento, Bharath Balasubramanian, Robert J. Hall, Kaustubh Joshi, Gueyoung Jung, K. Hal Purdy · 2016
Allocating and managing resources in the Internet of Things (IoT) presents many new challenges, including massive scale, new security issues, and new resource types that become critical in making orchestration decisions. In this paper, we investigate whether clouds of edge devices can be managed as Infrastructure-as-a-Service clouds. We describe our approach, FocusStack, that uses location based situational awareness, implemented over a multi-tier geographic addressing network, to solve the problems of inefficient awareness messaging and mixed initiative control that IoT device clouds raise for traditional cloud management tools. We provide an extended case study of a shared video application as initial demonstration and evaluation of the work and show that we effectively solve the two key problems above.