Orchestration and Monitoring in Fog Computing for Personal Edge Cloud Service Support

Abstract

To effectively support new cloud services and smart device accessibility, current Internet design must move away from its typical TCP/IP-based architecture and evolve towards new paradigms characterized by high degrees of freedom. In particular, Network Functions Virtualization and Software-Defined Networking have proven to be appropriate approaches to introducing edge-programmability. In this article we give an overview over the fog computing-architecture approach INPUT (In-Network Programmability for the next generation of Personal CloUd Service SupporT) with its implementation OpenVolcano, which uses the above approaches to promote future personal Internet cloud services at the network edge. Specifically, it enables computing and storage capabilities for edge network devices, provides a simple, private, programmable SDN-based Ethernet domain for end users and edge cloud services, IaaS and PaaS support with tight delay and performance constraints through templates. The focus of this work is on multi-service orchestration and monitoring, which is an essential core of any edge computing architecture.