Using Blockchain to push Software-Defined IoT Components onto Edge Hosts
Mayra Samaniego, Ralph Deters · 2016
Moving IoT components from the cloud onto edge hosts helps in reducing overall network traffic and thus minimizes latency. However, provisioning IoT services on the IoT edge devices presents new challenges regarding system design and maintenance. One possible approach is the use of software-defined IoT components in the form of virtual IoT resources. This, in turn, allows exposing the thing/device layer and the core IoT service layer as collections of micro services that can be distributed to a broad range of hosts.