A Performance Exploration of Architectural Options for a Middleware for Decentralised Lightweight Edge Cloud Architectures

David von Leon, Lorenzo Miori, Julian Sanin, Nabil El Ioini, Sven Helmer, Claus Pahl

2018

Abstract

The integration of Cloud and IoT (Internet-of-Things) resulting in so-called edge clouds has started. This requires the combination of data centre management technologies with much more constrained devices. Lightweight virtualisation solutions such as containerisation can be used to distribute, deploy and manage edge cloud applications on clusters. Leightweightness also applies to the devices, where we focus here on small-board devices such as Raspberry Pis in our concrete case. These small-board devices are particularly useful in situations where a mix of robustness due to environmental conditions and low costs is required. We discuss different architectural solutions for the distribution of computation to edge cloud devices based on containers and other management approaches and evaluate these in terms of cost, power consumption and performance.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

von Leon D., Miori L., Sanin J., El Ioini N., Helmer S. and Pahl C. (2018). A Performance Exploration of Architectural Options for a Middleware for Decentralised Lightweight Edge Cloud Architectures.In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Internet of Things, Big Data and Security - Volume 1: IoTBDS, ISBN 978-989-758-296-7, pages 73-84. DOI: 10.5220/0006677400730084

in Bibtex Style

@conference{iotbds18,
author={David von Leon and Lorenzo Miori and Julian Sanin and Nabil El Ioini and Sven Helmer and Claus Pahl},
title={A Performance Exploration of Architectural Options for a Middleware for Decentralised Lightweight Edge Cloud Architectures},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Internet of Things, Big Data and Security - Volume 1: IoTBDS,},
year={2018},
pages={73-84},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0006677400730084},
isbn={978-989-758-296-7},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Internet of Things, Big Data and Security - Volume 1: IoTBDS,
TI - A Performance Exploration of Architectural Options for a Middleware for Decentralised Lightweight Edge Cloud Architectures
SN - 978-989-758-296-7
AU - von Leon D.
AU - Miori L.
AU - Sanin J.
AU - El Ioini N.
AU - Helmer S.
AU - Pahl C.
PY - 2018
SP - 73
EP - 84
DO - 10.5220/0006677400730084