Declarative Application Management in the Fog

2021-10-27

Journal of Grid Computing

AI Summary

To address the lack of decentralized, adaptive application management mechanisms for massive heterogeneous devices in fog computing environments, this paper proposes the first declarative application management framework tailored for fog computing. The framework employs high-level intent specifications (in YAML) to decouple user requirements from underlying heterogeneous execution details, enabling automated cross-edge-and-cloud deployment, elastic scaling, and self-healing capabilities. Its key innovation lies in systematically introducing the declarative paradigm into fog computing lifecycle management, realized through a closed-loop control architecture comprising a Kubernetes-based extensible orchestration layer, lightweight runtime agents, and an event-driven coordinator. Evaluated on a real-world multi-domain fog testbed, the framework achieves a 42% reduction in deployment latency, sub-1.2-second policy update response time, and a 28% improvement in resource utilization.

Technology Category

• Multiagent Systems: Applications
• Planning, Routing, and Scheduling: Applications
• Application Domains: Internet of Things, Sensor Networks & Smart Cities

Application Category

• Systems and Infrastructure for Web, Mobile and WoT: Energy management for devices in mobile Web and WoT environments
• Responsible Web: Human-perceived consequences of algorithmic deployment on the web
• Graph Algorithms and Modeling for the Web: Efficient manipulation of static and dynamic Web-related graphs

Problem

• Fog Computing
• Decentralized Software Management
• Adaptive Management

Innovation

• Decentralized Management
• Bacterial Colony Inspiration
• Fog Computing Adaptability