Subject-oriented fog computing: Enabling stakeholder participation in development
Christian Stary, Albert Fleischmann, Werner Schmidt · 2018
With the increasing demand for advanced customized applications including devices on the edge of communication networks, the design and execution challenges to meet these demands from a development perspective have become prominent. Existing solutions, such as mobile cloud computing so far highly depend on additional infrastructure deployment. Given choreographic development approaches we can build on the capacity to coordinate a number of infrastructure or application components, and adapt them offering individualization opportunities without programming skills. Therefore, we conceive the idea of utilizing modular behavior abstraction, i.e. subjects, as elementary elements of smart infrastructures for application development. Subject-oriented Fog Computing (SFC) provides an architecture that utilizes an interacting multitude of stakeholder-specific behavior encapsulations including near-user edge devices to carry out communication and domain-specific logic execution.