Citation
Edward A. Lee, Jan Rabaey, David Blaauw, Prabal Dutta, Kevin Fu, Carlos Guestrin, Bjoern Hartmann, Roozbeh Jafari, Douglas L. Jones, John D. Kubiatowicz, Vijay Kumar, Rahul Mangharam, Brian T. 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". IEEE Design and Test of Computers on Cloud Computing for Embedded Systems, 31(3):8-20, 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 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 device 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, Prabal Dutta, Kevin
  Fu, Carlos Guestrin, Bjoern Hartmann, Roozbeh Jafari,
  Douglas L. Jones, John D. Kubiatowicz, Vijay Kumar, Rahul
  Mangharam, Brian T. Murray, George Pappas, Kris Pister,
  Anthony Rowe, Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli, Sanjit
  Seshia, Tajana Simunic Rosing, Ben Taskar, John Wawrzynek,
  David Wessel. <a
  href="http://www.terraswarm.org/pubs/109.html"
  >The Swarm at the Edge of the Cloud</a>,
  <i>IEEE Design and Test of Computers on Cloud
  Computing for Embedded Systems</i>, 31(3):8-20, June
  2014.

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  Edward A. Lee, Jan Rabaey, David Blaauw, Prabal Dutta, Kevin
  Fu, Carlos Guestrin, Bjoern Hartmann, Roozbeh Jafari,
  Douglas L. Jones, John D. Kubiatowicz, Vijay Kumar, Rahul
  Mangharam, Brian T. 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>IEEE Design and Test of Computers on
  Cloud Computing for Embedded Systems</i>, 31(3):8-20,
  June 2014.

• BibTeX

  @article{LeeRabaeyBlaauwDuttaFuGuestrinHartmannJafariJonesKubiatowicz14_SwarmAtEdgeOfCloud,
      author = {Edward A. Lee and Jan Rabaey and David Blaauw and
                Prabal Dutta and Kevin Fu and Carlos Guestrin and
                Bjoern Hartmann and Roozbeh Jafari and Douglas L.
                Jones and John D. Kubiatowicz and Vijay Kumar and
                Rahul Mangharam and Brian T. 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 = {IEEE Design and Test of Computers on Cloud
                Computing for Embedded Systems},
      volume = {31},
      number = {3},
      pages = {8-20},
      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 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 device and swarmlet developers, just as
                smart-phone platforms opened the door to millions
                of app developers.},
      URL = {http://terraswarm.org/pubs/109.html}
  }
  

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