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ElfStore: A Resilient Data Storage Service for Federated Edge and Fog Resources
Edge and fog computing have grown popular as IoT deployments become
wide-spread. While application composition and scheduling on such resources are
being explored, there exists a gap in a distributed data storage service on the
edge and fog layer, instead depending solely on the cloud for data persistence.
Such a service should reliably store and manage data on fog and edge devices,
even in the presence of failures, and offer transparent discovery and access to
data for use by edge computing applications. Here, we present Elfstore, a
first-of-its-kind edge-local federated store for streams of data blocks. It
uses reliable fog devices as a super-peer overlay to monitor the edge
resources, offers federated metadata indexing using Bloom filters, locates data
within 2-hops, and maintains approximate global statistics about the
reliability and storage capacity of edges. Edges host the actual data blocks,
and we use a unique differential replication scheme to select edges on which to
replicate blocks, to guarantee a minimum reliability and to balance storage
utilization. Our experiments on two IoT virtual deployments with 20 and 272
devices show that ElfStore has low overheads, is bound only by the network
bandwidth, has scalable performance, and offers tunable resilience.Comment: 24 pages, 14 figures, To appear in IEEE International Conference on
Web Services (ICWS), Milan, Italy, 201
HoPP: Robust and Resilient Publish-Subscribe for an Information-Centric Internet of Things
This paper revisits NDN deployment in the IoT with a special focus on the
interaction of sensors and actuators. Such scenarios require high
responsiveness and limited control state at the constrained nodes. We argue
that the NDN request-response pattern which prevents data push is vital for IoT
networks. We contribute HoP-and-Pull (HoPP), a robust publish-subscribe scheme
for typical IoT scenarios that targets IoT networks consisting of hundreds of
resource constrained devices at intermittent connectivity. Our approach limits
the FIB tables to a minimum and naturally supports mobility, temporary network
partitioning, data aggregation and near real-time reactivity. We experimentally
evaluate the protocol in a real-world deployment using the IoT-Lab testbed with
varying numbers of constrained devices, each wirelessly interconnected via IEEE
802.15.4 LowPANs. Implementations are built on CCN-lite with RIOT and support
experiments using various single- and multi-hop scenarios
Adaptive Energy-aware Scheduling of Dynamic Event Analytics across Edge and Cloud Resources
The growing deployment of sensors as part of Internet of Things (IoT) is
generating thousands of event streams. Complex Event Processing (CEP) queries
offer a useful paradigm for rapid decision-making over such data sources. While
often centralized in the Cloud, the deployment of capable edge devices on the
field motivates the need for cooperative event analytics that span Edge and
Cloud computing. Here, we identify a novel problem of query placement on edge
and Cloud resources for dynamically arriving and departing analytic dataflows.
We define this as an optimization problem to minimize the total makespan for
all event analytics, while meeting energy and compute constraints of the
resources. We propose 4 adaptive heuristics and 3 rebalancing strategies for
such dynamic dataflows, and validate them using detailed simulations for 100 -
1000 edge devices and VMs. The results show that our heuristics offer
O(seconds) planning time, give a valid and high quality solution in all cases,
and reduce the number of query migrations. Furthermore, rebalance strategies
when applied in these heuristics have significantly reduced the makespan by
around 20 - 25%.Comment: 11 pages, 7 figure
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