Mission-Critical Internet of Things Applications over Fog Networks

The Internet of Things (IoT) has recently become prevalent in several important application scenarios. Many of these applications are mission-critical: they require very high reliability as well as very low latency. In parallel with 5G, the fog networking has lately emerged as a promising paradigm for joint computing and communication, where virtualized resources are available at both the network edge and end-devices. The goal of the proposed research is indeed to harness fog networking to enable mission-critical IoT applications. Specifically, the project aims at defining novel mathematical and software tools to optimize the performance of large-scale IoT applications over heterogeneous devices, with a focus on reliable and low-latency operations. The undertaken research is a technology enabler for next generation wireless communication systems for the IoT. We take a multi-disciplinary approach at the intersection of networking, distributed computing, and economics.