ThinGs In a Fog: System Illustration with Connected Vehicles

This paper presents ThinGs In a Fog (TGIF)- a system designed to support interdisciplinary research that fall under the broad context of the Internet of Things. The framework is based on an Edge Computing system design that distributes application processing to system compute nodes leveraging geographic compute location diversity of a Cloud-to-the-edge to support machine-to- machine interactions that potentially have real- time constraints. To provide further insight, we focus on Connected Vehicle as an exemplar application domain. This paper provides a summary of work-to-date, including results from a small prototype of the system deployed at Clemson University. We illustrate the system be presenting work-to-date on the design, implementation and evaluation of a Queue Warning which is an application that has been studied thoroughly by the transportation community. This particular application is nicely suited for illustrating the additional benefits and complexities associated with implementing well understood applications in emerging distributed computing environments expected to be supported by the IoT.

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