Supporting the Adaptive Deployment of Modular Applications in Cloud-Edge-Mobile Systems
EWSN '23: Proceedings of the 2023 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON EMBEDDED WIRELESS SYSTEMS AND NETWORKS
Pages 204 - 210
Abstract
We introduce Fluidity, a framework enabling the flexible and adaptive deployment of modular applications in systems comprising cloud, edge, and mobile IoT nodes. Based on a declarative description of application requirements, Fluidity plans and executes an initial deployment of application components in the cloud-edge-mobile continuum. At runtime, Fluidity monitors resource availability and the position of mobile nodes, and adapts the deployment of the application accordingly, without any intervention from the application owner or system administrator. Notably, Fluidity allows applications to provide their own deployment and adaptation policies and to switch between different policies at runtime,while the application is running.
We discuss the design and implementation of Fluidity in detail and provide an evaluation using a lab testbed, where the mobile node is a simulated drone. Our results show that the core mechanisms of Fluidity can adapt the application at reasonable overhead.
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