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The emergence of the Internet of Things introduces new challenges like network congestion or data privacy. However, it also provides opportunities, such as computational resources close to data sources, which can be pooled to realize Fogs to run software applications on the edge of the network. To foster this new type of resources, we revisit the concept of mobile agents and evolve them to so-called nomadic applications, which allow addressing vital challenges for the Internet of Things.
In this paper, we propose a system design to realize nomadic applications and discuss several challenges that need to be addressed in order to apply them to real-world scenarios.
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This paper is supported by TU Wien research funds and by the Commission of the European Union within the CREMA H2020-RIA project (Grant agreement no. 637066).
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Hochreiner, C., Vögler, M., Schleicher, J.M., Inzinger, C., Schulte, S., Dustdar, S. (2018). Nomadic Applications Traveling in the Fog. In: Longo, A., et al. Cloud Infrastructures, Services, and IoT Systems for Smart Cities. IISSC CN4IoT 2017 2017. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 189. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67636-4_17
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