A capillary computing architecture for dynamic Internet of Things : orchestration of microservices from edge devices to fog and cloud providers

Taherizadeh, Salman (author), Stankovski, Vlado (author), Grobelnik, Marko (author)

The adoption of advanced Internet of Things (IoT) technologies has impressively improved in recent years by placing such services at the extreme Edge of the network. There are, however, specific Quality of Service (QoS) trade-offs that must be considered, particularly in situations when workloads vary over time or when IoT devices are dynamically changing their geographic position. This article proposes an innovative capillary computing architecture, which benefits from mainstream Fog and Cloud computing approaches and relies on a set of new services, including an Edge/Fog/Cloud Monitoring System and a Capillary Container Orchestrator. All necessary Microservices are implemented as Docker containers, and their orchestration is performed from the Edge computing nodes up to Fog and Cloud servers in the geographic vicinity of moving IoT devices. A car equipped with a Motorhome Artificial Intelligence Communication Hardware (MACH) system as an Edge node connected to several Fog and Cloud computing servers was used for testing. Compared to using a fixed centralized Cloud provider, the service response time provided by our proposed capillary computing architecture was almost four times faster according to the 99th percentile value along with a significantly smaller standard deviation, which represents a high QoS.

• Language: English
• Keywords: Internet of Things, container-based virtualization, edge computing, fog computing, microservices, on/offloading
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: FGG - Faculty of Civil and Geodetic Engineering
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2018
• Number of pages: 23 str.
• Numbering: Vol. 18, iss. 9, art. 2938
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-132104
• UDC: 004.738.5
• ISSN on article: 1424-8220
• DOI: 10.3390/s18092938
• COBISS.SI-ID: 8522593
• Publication date in RUL: 13.10.2021

TAHERIZADEH, Salman, STANKOVSKI, Vlado and GROBELNIK, Marko, 2018, A capillary computing architecture for dynamic Internet of Things : orchestration of microservices from edge devices to fog and cloud providers. Sensors [online]. 2018. Vol. 18, no. 9,  2938. [Accessed 14 August 2025]. DOI 10.3390/s18092938. Retrieved from: https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/IzpisGradiva.php?lang=eng&id=132104

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Sensors
• Shortened title: Sensors
• Publisher: MDPI
• ISSN: 1424-8220
• COBISS.SI-ID: 10176278

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• Licensing start date: 04.09.2018

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: internet stvari, vizualizacija z uporabo vsebnikov, rob omrežja, računalništvo v megli, mikro-servisi