FOGG: A Fog Computing Based Gateway to Integrate Sensor Networks to Internet
29th International Teletraffic Congress (ITC 29), Genoa, Italy, (2017)Abstract
Internet of Things (IoT) is a growing topic of interest along with 5G. Billions of IoT devices are expected to connect to the Internet in the near future. These devices differ from the traditional devices operated in the Internet. We observe that Information Centric Networking (ICN), is a more suitable architecture for the IoT compared to the prevailing IP based network. However, we observe that recent works that propose to use ICN for IoT, either do not cover the need to integrate Sensor Networks with the Internet to realize IoT or do so inefficiently. Fog computing is a promising technology that has many benefits to offer especially for IoT. We discover a need to integrate various heterogeneous Sensor Networks with the Internet to realize IoT. In this work, we propose FOGG:A Fog Computing Based Gateway to Integrate Sensor Networks to Internet. FOGG uses a edge device to function as IoT gateway. FOGG provides the needed integration along with additional services like name/protocol translation, security and controller functionalities.
