To many, fog computing is considered the next step beyond the current centralized cloud that will support the forthcoming Internet of Things (IoT) revolution. While IoT devices will still communicate with applications running in the cloud, localized fog clusters will appear with IoT devices communicating with application logic running on a proximate fog node. This will add proximity-based machine-to-machine (M2M) communications to standard cloud-computing traffic, and it calls for efficient mobility management for entire fog clusters and energy-efficient communication within them. In this context, long-term evolution-advanced (LTE-A) technology is expected to play a major role as a communication infrastructure that guarantees low deployment costs, native mobility support, and plug-and-play seamless configuration. We investigate the role of LTE-A in future large-scale IoT systems. In particular, we analyze how the recently standardized device-to-device (D2D) communication mode can be exploited to effectively enable direct M2M interactions within fog clusters, and we assess the expected benefits in terms of network resources and energy consumption. Moreover, we show how the fog-cluster architecture, and its localized-communication paradigm, can be leveraged to devise enhanced mobility management, building on what LTE-A already has to offer.

D2D Communications for Large-Scale Fog Platforms: Enabling Direct M2M Interactions

A. Virdis;C. Vallati
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G. Nardini;G. Stea;E. Mingozzi
2018-01-01

Abstract

To many, fog computing is considered the next step beyond the current centralized cloud that will support the forthcoming Internet of Things (IoT) revolution. While IoT devices will still communicate with applications running in the cloud, localized fog clusters will appear with IoT devices communicating with application logic running on a proximate fog node. This will add proximity-based machine-to-machine (M2M) communications to standard cloud-computing traffic, and it calls for efficient mobility management for entire fog clusters and energy-efficient communication within them. In this context, long-term evolution-advanced (LTE-A) technology is expected to play a major role as a communication infrastructure that guarantees low deployment costs, native mobility support, and plug-and-play seamless configuration. We investigate the role of LTE-A in future large-scale IoT systems. In particular, we analyze how the recently standardized device-to-device (D2D) communication mode can be exploited to effectively enable direct M2M interactions within fog clusters, and we assess the expected benefits in terms of network resources and energy consumption. Moreover, we show how the fog-cluster architecture, and its localized-communication paradigm, can be leveraged to devise enhanced mobility management, building on what LTE-A already has to offer.
2018
Virdis, A.; Vallati, C.; Nardini, G.; Tanganelli, G.; Stea, G.; Mingozzi, E.
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