SPF: An SDN-based middleware solution to mitigate the IoT information explosion

Managing the extremely large volume of information generated by Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices, estimated to be in excess of 400 ZB per year by 2018, is going to be an increasingly relevant issue. Most of the approaches to IoT information management proposed so far, based on the collection of IoT-...

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Published in2016 IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communication (ISCC) pp. 435 - 442
Main Authors Tortonesi, Mauro, Michaelis, James, Morelli, Alessandro, Suri, Niranjan, Baker, Michael A.
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 01.06.2016
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Computer architecture
Computers
Information Dissemination
Information processing
Internet of things
Law enforcement
Logic gates
Middleware
Software Defined Networking
Value of Information
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Summary:Managing the extremely large volume of information generated by Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices, estimated to be in excess of 400 ZB per year by 2018, is going to be an increasingly relevant issue. Most of the approaches to IoT information management proposed so far, based on the collection of IoT-generated raw data for storage and processing in the Cloud, place a significant burden on both communications and computational resources, and introduce significant latency. IoT applications would instead benefit from new paradigms to enable definition and deployment of dynamic IoT services and facilitate their use of computational resources at the edge of the network for data analysis purposes, and from smart dissemination solutions to deliver the processed information to consumers. This paper presents SPF (as in "Sieve, Process, and Forward"), an SDN solution which extends the reference ONF architecture replacing the Data Plane with an Information Processing and Dissemination Plane. By leveraging programmable information processors deployed at the Internet/IoT edge and disruption tolerant information dissemination solutions, SPF allows to define and manage IoT applications and services and represents a promising architecture for future urban computing applications.
DOI:10.1109/ISCC.2016.7543778