SeMaFoR - Self-Management of Fog Resources with Collaborative Decentralized Controllers

Fog Computing is a paradigm aiming to decentralize the Cloud by geographically distributing away computation, storage and network resources as well as related services. This notably reduces bottlenecks and data movement. However, managing Fog resources is a major challenge because the targeted systems are large, geographically distributed, unreliable and very dynamic. Cloud systems are generally managed via centralized autonomic controllers automatically optimizing both application QoS and resource usage. To leverage the self-management of Fog resources, we propose to orchestrate a fleet of autonomic controllers in a decentralized manner, each with a local view of its own resources. In this paper, we present our SeMaFoR (Self-Management of Fog Resources) vision that aims at collaboratively operating Fog resources. SeMaFoR is a generic approach made of three cornerstones: an Architecture Description Language for the Fog, a collaborative and consensual decision-making process, and an automatic coordination mechanism for reconfiguration.