A federated Edge Cloud IoT architecture
The provisioning of powerful decentralized services in the Internet of Things (IoT) as well as the integration of innovative IoT platforms, requires ubiquity, reliability, high performance, efficiency, and scalability. Towards the accomplishment of the above requirements, the contemporary technological trends leaded to the IoT and Cloud convergence. This combination created the approach of federated Cloud IoT architectures. The Cloud IoT architectural vision is paving the way to the vital step, beyond the IoT cognitive capabilities, that refers to the IoT world leveraging cloud principles. For the success of the deployment of such innovative and high performance solutions, the introduction and the exploitation of 5G technological principles will empower the way forward. Towards this direction, this paper presents a federated architecture combined by distributed Edge Cloud IoT platforms, that enables the semantic based service combination and provisioning. The 5G technological features, such as low latency, zero losses, high bitrates are studied and proposed for the empowerment of the federation of the Edge Cloud IoT architectures. A smart health use case is presented for the evaluation of the proposed solution.
2016 European Conference on Networks and Communications (EuCNC)