HomeCloud: An edge cloud framework and testbed for new application delivery

Pan, Junjun; Ma, Lin; Ravindran, Ravishankar; TalebiFard, Peyman

doi:10.1109/ict.2016.7500391

Cited by 31 publications

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“…In literature, there exist various smart applications, such as CloudAware [21], Femtoclouds [22], EdgeIoT [23], ParaDrop [24] and HomeCloud [25] The aforementioned solutions [21,22,23,24,25,8,11,9] for offloading computational tasks to the network edge focus mainly on scalar data. They lack the support for processing real-time multimedia streams such as video analysis.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

SmartEdge: An end-to-end encryption framework for an edge-enabled smart city application

Jan

Zhang

Usman

et al. 2019

Journal of Network and Computer Applications

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The Internet of Things (IoT) has the potential to transform communities around the globe into smart cities. The massive deployment of sensor-embedded devices in the smart cities generates voluminous amounts of data that need to be stored and processed in an efficient manner. Long-haul data transmission to the remote cloud data centers leads to higher delay and bandwidth consumption. In smart cities, the delay

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Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

SmartEdge: An end-to-end encryption framework for an edge-enabled smart city application

Jan

Zhang

Usman

et al. 2019

Journal of Network and Computer Applications

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“…Summary: Despite the ability of edge computing to bring about cloud services and facilitate the analysis of the data closer to their IoT sources, there are various drawbacks that are still implied by the advancement of the edge paradigm as an extender of cloud services, such as the deployment and management of local resources [54,58,63], assurance of the availability and sustainability of edge services [48,50], use of Big Data analytics based on the edge for IoT data-driven service management automation [68], development of suitable programing models for edge applications [38,42] and coordination between different edge paradigms [37,65]. As a result, the investigation into how to build a stable and hybrid edge infrastructure for receiving and processing information locally is urgently needed.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…In [58], the HomeCloud framework has focused on solving two research issues regarding automated orchestration and dynamic offloading. Additionally, it has defined a new application delivery in edge and centralized cloud services by exploiting the benefits of NFV (Network Function Virtualization) and SDN (Software Defined Networking) technologies.…”

Section: Edge As a Middle Layermentioning

confidence: 99%

Moving to the Edge-Cloud-of-Things: Recent Advances and Future Research Directions

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Cloud computing has significantly enhanced the growth of the Internet of Things (IoT) by ensuring and supporting the Quality of Service (QoS) of IoT applications. However, cloud services are still far from IoT devices. Notably, the transmission of IoT data experiences network issues, such as high latency. In this case, the cloud platforms cannot satisfy the IoT applications that require real-time response. Yet, the location of cloud services is one of the challenges encountered in the evolution of the IoT paradigm. Recently, edge cloud computing has been proposed to bring cloud services closer to the IoT end-users, becoming a promising paradigm whose pitfalls and challenges are not yet well understood. This paper aims at presenting the leading-edge computing concerning the movement of services from centralized cloud platforms to decentralized platforms, and examines the issues and challenges introduced by these highly distributed environments, to support engineers and researchers who might benefit from this transition.

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“…As we can see that EdgeChain locates between the edge cloud platforms and the various IoT applications that are launched in the shared infrastructure. It means that EdgeChain can run on different edge cloud platforms such as HomeCloud [46] or Cloudlet [9].…”

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EdgeChain: An Edge-IoT Framework and Prototype Based on Blockchain and Smart Contracts

Pan

Wang

Hester

et al. 2019

IEEE Internet Things J.

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The emerging Internet of Things (IoT) is facing significant scalability and security challenges. On the one hand, IoT devices are "weak" and need external assistance. Edge computing provides a promising direction addressing the deficiency of centralized cloud computing in scaling massive number of devices. On the other hand, IoT devices are also relatively "vulnerable" facing malicious hackers due to resource constraints. The emerging blockchain and smart contracts technologies bring a series of new security features for IoT and edge computing. In this paper, to address the challenges, we design and prototype an edge-IoT framework named "EdgeChain" based on blockchain and smart contracts. The core idea is to integrate a permissioned blockchain and the internal currency or "coin" system to link the edge cloud resource pool with each IoT device' account and resource usage, and hence behavior of the IoT devices. EdgeChain uses a credit-based resource management system to control how much resource IoT devices can obtain from edge servers, based on pre-defined rules on priority, application types and past behaviors. Smart contracts are used to enforce the rules and policies to regulate the IoT device behavior in a non-deniable and automated manner. All the IoT activities and transactions are recorded into blockchain for secure data logging and auditing. We implement an EdgeChain prototype and conduct extensive experiments to evaluate the ideas. The results show that while gaining the security benefits of blockchain and smart contracts, the cost of integrating them into EdgeChain is within a reasonable and acceptable range.

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HomeCloud: An edge cloud framework and testbed for new application delivery

Cited by 31 publications

References 8 publications

SmartEdge: An end-to-end encryption framework for an edge-enabled smart city application

SmartEdge: An end-to-end encryption framework for an edge-enabled smart city application

Moving to the Edge-Cloud-of-Things: Recent Advances and Future Research Directions

EdgeChain: An Edge-IoT Framework and Prototype Based on Blockchain and Smart Contracts

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