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access icon free Architecting the Web of Things for the fog computing era

  • Author(s): Niko Mäkitalo 1 ; Francesco Nocera 2 ; Marina Mongiello 2 ; Stefano Bistarelli 3
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  • Source: Volume 12, Issue 5, October 2018, p. 381 – 389
    DOI:  10.1049/iet-sen.2017.0350 , Print ISSN 1751-8806, Online ISSN 1751-8814
© The Institution of Engineering and Technology
Received 05/12/2017, Accepted 29/03/2018, Revised 07/03/2018, Published 04/04/2018

Fog computing paradigm is emerging after a decade's dominance of cloud-based system design and architecture. Now, instead of centralising the computation and coordination to remote services, these are deployed and distributed to all over physical surroundings and network nodes, including cloud services, smart gateways, and network edge devices. At the moment, the majority of the Internet of things (IoT) systems and software has built on top of open Web-based technologies. The authors assume that with the ever-growing number and heterogeneity of connected devices, it becomes ever-more crucial to have open standards that support interoperability and enable interactions. They review the current technological space for architecting Web technology-based IoT software in the coming era of fog computing. They focus on fundamental research challenges and discuss the emerging issues.

Inspec keywords: internetworking; Internet of Things; open systems; Internet; cloud computing

Other keywords: IoT software; architecting Web technology; emerging issues; fog computing era; system design; heterogeneity; connected devices; architecture; cloud services; open Web; physical surroundings; computation; coming era; remote services; smart gateways; coordination; open standards; fog computing paradigm; network nodes; current technological space; network edge devices

Subjects: Computer communications; Internet software; Information networks

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