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The Swarm at the Edge of the Cloud
Edward A. Lee, Jan Rabaey, David Blaauw, Kevin Fu, Carlos Guestrin, Bjorn Hartmann, Roozbeh Jafari, Doug Jones, John Kubiatowicz, Vijay Kumar, Rahul Mangharam, Richard Murray, George Pappas, Kris Pister, Anthony Rowe, Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli, Sanjit Seshia, Tajana Simunic Rosing, Ben Taskar, John Wawrzynek, David Wessel

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Edward A. Lee, Jan Rabaey, David Blaauw, Kevin Fu, Carlos Guestrin, Bjorn Hartmann, Roozbeh Jafari, Doug Jones, John Kubiatowicz, Vijay Kumar, Rahul Mangharam, Richard Murray, George Pappas, Kris Pister, Anthony Rowe, Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli, Sanjit Seshia, Tajana Simunic Rosing, Ben Taskar, John Wawrzynek, David Wessel. "The Swarm at the Edge of the Cloud". Design & Test, IEEE, 31(3):1-13, June 2014.

Abstract
Today, large numbers of sensors and actuators embedded into innovative devices are being introduced into our connected world at an accelerating rate. This sensory swarm, or the swarm for short, presents an extension of the infosphere (today embodied in the cloud) into the physical world. The swarm gives the cloud eyes, ears, hands, and feet, enabling services that are directly embedded in the physical world rather than just in the cyber world. There is no question that the pervasive integration of smart, networked sensors and actuators into the physical world offers huge potential to address societal problems, to improve quality of life, and to smooth the boundaries between the human and the cyber worlds. But it comes with enormous challenges and risks | both technical and non-technical. To mitigate these concerns, this paper proposes the adoption of an open and universal platform to enable the simple, reliable, and secure deployment and operation of a multiplicity of distributed sense and control applications (which we call swarmlets). Providing access control and resource guarantees is essential to quality of experience and safety. Making the platform open and universal will unleash millions of swarm devices and swarmlet developers, just as smart-phone platforms opened the door to millions of app developers.

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    Edward A. Lee, Jan Rabaey, David Blaauw, Kevin Fu, Carlos
    Guestrin, Bjorn Hartmann, Roozbeh Jafari, Doug Jones, John
    Kubiatowicz, Vijay Kumar, Rahul Mangharam, Richard Murray,
    George Pappas, Kris Pister, Anthony Rowe, Alberto
    Sangiovanni-Vincentelli, Sanjit Seshia, Tajana Simunic
    Rosing, Ben Taskar, John Wawrzynek, David Wessel. <a
    href="http://chess.eecs.berkeley.edu/pubs/1066.html"
    >The Swarm at the Edge of the Cloud</a>,
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    2014.
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    Edward A. Lee, Jan Rabaey, David Blaauw, Kevin Fu, Carlos
    Guestrin, Bjorn Hartmann, Roozbeh Jafari, Doug Jones, John
    Kubiatowicz, Vijay Kumar, Rahul Mangharam, Richard Murray,
    George Pappas, Kris Pister, Anthony Rowe, Alberto
    Sangiovanni-Vincentelli, Sanjit Seshia, Tajana Simunic
    Rosing, Ben Taskar, John Wawrzynek, David Wessel. "The
    Swarm at the Edge of the Cloud". <i>Design &
    Test, IEEE</i>, 31(3):1-13, June 2014.
  • BibTeX
    @article{LeeRabaeyBlaauwFuGuestrinHartmannJafariJonesKubiatowicz14_SwarmAtEdgeOfCloud,
        author = {Edward A. Lee and Jan Rabaey and David Blaauw and
                  Kevin Fu and Carlos Guestrin and Bjorn Hartmann
                  and Roozbeh Jafari and Doug Jones and John
                  Kubiatowicz and Vijay Kumar and Rahul Mangharam
                  and Richard Murray and George Pappas and Kris
                  Pister and Anthony Rowe and Alberto
                  Sangiovanni-Vincentelli and Sanjit Seshia and
                  Tajana Simunic Rosing and Ben Taskar and John
                  Wawrzynek and David Wessel},
        title = {The Swarm at the Edge of the Cloud},
        journal = {Design \& Test, IEEE},
        volume = {31},
        number = {3},
        pages = {1-13},
        month = {June},
        year = {2014},
        abstract = {Today, large numbers of sensors and actuators
                  embedded into innovative devices are being
                  introduced into our connected world at an
                  accelerating rate. This sensory swarm, or the
                  swarm for short, presents an extension of the
                  infosphere (today embodied in the cloud) into the
                  physical world. The swarm gives the cloud eyes,
                  ears, hands, and feet, enabling services that are
                  directly embedded in the physical world rather
                  than just in the cyber world. There is no question
                  that the pervasive integration of smart, networked
                  sensors and actuators into the physical world
                  offers huge potential to address societal
                  problems, to improve quality of life, and to
                  smooth the boundaries between the human and the
                  cyber worlds. But it comes with enormous
                  challenges and risks | both technical and
                  non-technical. To mitigate these concerns, this
                  paper proposes the adoption of an open and
                  universal platform to enable the simple, reliable,
                  and secure deployment and operation of a
                  multiplicity of distributed sense and control
                  applications (which we call swarmlets). Providing
                  access control and resource guarantees is
                  essential to quality of experience and safety.
                  Making the platform open and universal will
                  unleash millions of swarm devices and swarmlet
                  developers, just as smart-phone platforms opened
                  the door to millions of app developers. },
        URL = {http://chess.eecs.berkeley.edu/pubs/1066.html}
    }
    

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