A Framework for Efficient and Scalable Service Offloading in the Mist
Eugenio Rubio-Drosdov, Daniel Díaz-Sánchez, Florina Almenárez, Andrés Marín · 2019
Mist computing puts computing on the very edge of the network. With mist computing, the computation is performed in users' devices (smartphones, laptops, etc.) sensors or wearables (something fairly common in the context of the Internet of Things). Devices which are near may be part of a mist where each of these devices contributes to computation tasks. Each of them has computation capabilities which can be used in order to run tasks from other devices. However, devices in the network must be aware of available features in order to execute tasks within a device with the necessary hardware requirements. There is a compatibility problem between tasks and devices: not all devices satisfy all tasks needs. This article proposes a mist computing framework in order to tackle this compatibility problem.