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The Cloud is Not Enough: Saving IoT from the Cloud

Authors: 

Ben Zhang, Nitesh Mor, John Kolb, Douglas S. Chan, Nikhil Goyal, Ken Lutz, Eric Allman, John Wawrzynek, Edward Lee, and John Kubiatowicz, University of California, Berkeley

Abstract: 

The Internet of Things (IoT) represents a new class of applications that can benefit from cloud infrastructure. However, the current approach of directly connecting smart devices to the cloud has a number of disadvantages and is unlikely to keep up with either the growing speed of the IoT or the diverse needs of IoT applications.

In this paper we explore these disadvantages and argue that fundamental properties of the IoT prevent the current approach from scaling. What is missing is a wellarchitected system that extends the functionality of the cloud and provides seamless interplay among the heterogeneous components in the IoT space. We argue that raising the level of abstraction to a data-centric design—focused around the distribution, preservation and protection of information—provides a much better match to the IoT.We present early work on such a distributed platform, called the Global Data Plane (GDP), and discuss how it addresses the problems with the cloud-centric architecture.

Ben Zhang, University of California, Berkeley

Nitesh Mor, University of California, Berkeley

John Kolb, University of California, Berkeley

Douglas S. Chan, University of California, Berkeley

Ken Lutz, University of California, Berkeley

Eric Allman, University of California, Berkeley

John Wawrzynek, University of California, Berkeley

Edward Lee, University of California, Berkeley

John Kubiatowicz, University of California, Berkeley

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BibTeX
@inproceedings {190617,
author = {Ben Zhang and Nitesh Mor and John Kolb and Douglas S. Chan and Ken Lutz and Eric Allman and John Wawrzynek and Edward Lee and John Kubiatowicz},
title = {The Cloud is Not Enough: Saving {IoT} from the Cloud},
booktitle = {7th USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Cloud Computing (HotCloud 15)},
year = {2015},
address = {Santa Clara, CA},
url = {https://www.usenix.org/conference/hotcloud15/workshop-program/presentation/zhang},
publisher = {USENIX Association},
month = jul,
}
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