Enabling the orchestration of IoT slices through edge and cloud microservice platforms

Fernandez, Juan Manuel; Vidal Fernández, Iván; Valera Pintor, Francisco

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Enabling the orchestration of IoT slices through edge and cloud microservice platforms

dc.affiliation.dpto	UC3M. Departamento de Ingeniería Telemática	es
dc.affiliation.grupoinv	UC3M. Grupo de Investigación: Network Technologies	es
dc.contributor.author	Fernandez, Juan Manuel
dc.contributor.author	Vidal Fernández, Iván
dc.contributor.author	Valera Pintor, Francisco
dc.contributor.funder	European Commission	en
dc.contributor.funder	Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (España)	es
dc.date.accessioned	2020-11-12T10:27:19Z
dc.date.available	2020-11-12T10:27:19Z
dc.date.issued	2019-07-05
dc.description.abstract	This article addresses one of the main challenges related to the practical deployment of Internet of Things (IoT) solutions: the coordinated operation of entities at different infrastructures to support the automated orchestration of end-to-end Internet of Things services. This idea is referred to as "Internet of Things slicing" and is based on the network slicing concept already defined for the Fifth Generation (5G) of mobile networks. In this context, we present the architectural design of a slice orchestrator addressing the aforementioned challenge, based on well-known standard technologies and protocols. The proposed solution is able to integrate existing technologies, like cloud computing, with other more recent technologies like edge computing and network slicing. In addition, a functional prototype of the proposed orchestrator has been implemented, using open-source software and microservice platforms. As a first step to prove the practical feasibility of our solution, the implementation of the orchestrator considers cloud and edge domains. The validation results obtained from the prototype prove the feasibility of the solution from a functional perspective, verifying its capacity to deploy Internet of Things related functions even on resource constrained platforms. This approach enables new application models where these Internet of Things related functions can be onboarded on small unmanned aerial vehicles, offering a flexible and cost-effective solution to deploy these functions at the network edge. In addition, this proposal can also be used on commercial cloud platforms, like the Google Compute Engine, showing that it can take advantage of the benefits of edge and cloud computing respectively	en
dc.description.sponsorship	The work of Ivan Vidal and Francisco Valera was partially supported by the European H2020 5GinFIRE project (grant agreement 732497), and by the 5GCity project (TEC2016-76795-C6-3-R) funded by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness.	en
dc.identifier.bibliographicCitation	Fernandez, J.-M.; Vidal, I.; Valera, F. Enabling the Orchestration of IoT Slices through Edge and Cloud Microservice Platforms. Sensors 2019, 19, 2980.
dc.identifier.doi	https://doi.org/10.3390/s19132980
dc.identifier.issn	1424-8220
dc.identifier.publicationfirstpage	1
dc.identifier.publicationissue	13, 2980
dc.identifier.publicationlastpage	29
dc.identifier.publicationtitle	Sensors
dc.identifier.publicationvolume	19
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10016/31373
dc.identifier.uxxi	AR/0000024981
dc.language.iso	eng
dc.publisher	MDPI
dc.relation.projectID	info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/732497 (5GinFIRE)
dc.relation.projectID	Gobierno de España. TEC2016-76795-C6-3-R
dc.rights	© 2019 by the authors
dc.rights	Atribución 3.0 España
dc.rights.accessRights	open access
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/
dc.subject.eciencia	Telecomunicaciones	es
dc.subject.other	Edge computing	en
dc.subject.other	Internet of things (Iot)	en
dc.subject.other	Lot slice	en
dc.subject.other	Microservice	en
dc.subject.other	Network slicing	en
dc.subject.other	Orchestration	en
dc.subject.other	Small unmanned aerial vehicle (Suav)	en
dc.title	Enabling the orchestration of IoT slices through edge and cloud microservice platforms	en
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