Design and implementation of a message-service oriented middleware for fog of things platforms

Abstract

Fog of Things (FoT) is a new paradigm for design and implementation of Fog Computing platforms for the Internet of Things (IoT). The FoT proposal goes further than the Fog Computing in some directions: i) by using all the processing capacity of the network edge through performing data processing and service delivery on devices, gateways (very small servers) and small local servers; ii) by defining profiles for gateways and servers at the edge of the network, in order to define and implement IoT Services to be delivered in a distributed way; iii) by distributing these IoT Services also at the network edge through a message-service oriented middleware. In this paper, we propose FoT-MSOM, which is a message-service oriented middleware for the FoT paradigm, and we show how this middleware can be deployed on a Self-Organizing FoT-based platform (SOFT-IoT platform).