Service management platform to support service migrations for IoT smart city applications

Abstract

The smart city is one of the prominent applications of the Internet of Things (IoT) and offers innovative services to its citizens. It can be viewed as segmented network in which different networks communicate via gateways through the global Internet. However, for the provision of services anywhere in a dense and heterogeneous IoT environment, this remote cloud infrastructure has limitations for scalability and is prone to long transmission latency. A decentralized architecture, such as fog computing, can efficiently minimize latency and support scalability by executing services to close proximity of objects. Physical proximity is not fixed and extends from gateways to dedicated service objects anywhere in the IoT. Therefore, an efficient platform is indispensable that improves network performance for scalability and low latency through service migration. We propose a service management platform under fog computing architecture that supports migrating services. The proposed service management platform reduces communication latency between service and object as compared to services on gateways or in remote cloud infrastructure.