Heterogeneous Wireless Device Management in Edge Computing Systems for IoT Services
Vitumbiko Mafeni, Younghan Kim · 2023
In a heterogeneous Internet of Things (IoT) setup, it is impractical and requires human intervention to deploy workloads for every device after enrolment, especially considering the diverse range of wireless technologies involved. Furthermore, it is extremely complex to design and develop a large-scale system that can accommodate and integrate heterogeneous wireless technologies to achieve interoperability between the devices. As the number of devices increases, it is necessary to dynamically adjust workloads to accommodate the growing demand and maintain quality of service. In this paper we employ a state-of-art solution called Project-Flotta, which is utilized for managing edge devices and edge workloads. However, Project-Flotta does not provide a way of automating and managing heterogeneous wireless technologies for an IoT service. Therefore, we propose a system based on Project-Flotta leveraging its kubernetes custom resources by extending its functionality to adapt diverse wireless technologies.