Declarative Application Management in the Fog. A bacteria-inspired decentralised approach

TL;DR

This paper introduces a decentralized, bacteria-inspired declarative approach for managing applications across heterogeneous Cloud-IoT resources, emphasizing scalability, adaptability, and policy enforcement.

Contribution

It presents a novel, fully decentralized application management framework inspired by bacteria colonies, tailored for Cloud-IoT environments, with customizable implementation and scalability validation.

Findings

Demonstrates scalability through simulation in diverse scenarios

Supports end-user mobility and application-specific policies

Validates effectiveness in heterogeneous Cloud-IoT settings

Abstract

Orchestrating next gen applications over hterogeneous resources along the Cloud-IoT continuum calls for new strategies and tools to enable scalable and application-specific managements. Inspired by the self-organisation capabilities of bacteria colonies, we propose a declarative, fully decentralised application management solution, targeting pervasive opportunistic Cloud-IoT infrastructures. We present acustomisable declarative implementation of the approach and validate its scalability through simulation over motivating scenarios, also considering end-user's mobility and the possibility to enforce application-specific management policies for different classes of applications.