Predictive Management of Fog Applications

Deploying and managing multi-component IoT applications in Fog computing scenarios is challenging due to the heterogeneity, scale and dynamicity of Fog infrastructures, as well as due to the complexity of modern software systems. When deciding where/how to (re-)allocate application components over the continuum from the IoT to the Cloud, application administrators need to find the “best” deployment, satisfying all application (hardware, software, QoS, IoT) requirements over the contextually available resources, also fulfilling non-functional desiderata (e.g., financial costs, security).