Citation
Ben Zhang, Nitesh Mor, Jack Kolb, Douglas Chan, Nikhil Goyal, Ken Lutz, Eric Allman, John Wawrzynek, Edward A. Lee, John D. Kubiatowicz. "The Cloud is Not Enough: Saving IoT from the Cloud". HotCloud15, 6, July, 2015.

Abstract
The Internet of Things (IoT) represents a new class of applications that can benefit hugely from the cloud. However, the current approach of directly connecting smart devices to the cloud has a number of disadvantages and is unlikely to keep up with either the speed of growth of IoT or the diverse needs of IoT applications. In this paper we explore these disadvantages and argue that fundamental properties of the IoT prevent the current approach from scaling. What is missing is a well-architected system that extends the functionality of the cloud and provides seamless interplay among the heterogeneous components in the IoT space. We argue that raising the level of abstraction to a data-centric design-- focused around the distribution, preservation and protection of information-- provides a much better match to the IoT.We present early work on such a distributed platform, called the Global Data Plane (GDP), and demonstrate how it addresses the problem with the cloud-centric architecture.

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• https://www.src.org/library/publication/p073544/. (Link to paper on SRC website.)
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  Ben Zhang, Nitesh Mor, Jack Kolb, Douglas Chan, Nikhil
  Goyal, Ken Lutz, Eric Allman, John Wawrzynek, Edward A. Lee,
  John D. Kubiatowicz. <a
  href="http://www.terraswarm.org/pubs/518.html"
  >The Cloud is Not Enough: Saving IoT from the
  Cloud</a>, HotCloud15, 6, July, 2015.

• Plain text

  Ben Zhang, Nitesh Mor, Jack Kolb, Douglas Chan, Nikhil
  Goyal, Ken Lutz, Eric Allman, John Wawrzynek, Edward A. Lee,
  John D. Kubiatowicz. "The Cloud is Not Enough: Saving
  IoT from the Cloud". HotCloud15, 6, July, 2015.

• BibTeX

  @inproceedings{ZhangMorKolbChanGoyalLutzAllmanWawrzynekLeeKubiatowicz15_CloudIsNotEnoughSavingIoTFromCloud,
      author = {Ben Zhang and Nitesh Mor and Jack Kolb and Douglas
                Chan and Nikhil Goyal and Ken Lutz and Eric Allman
                and John Wawrzynek and Edward A. Lee and John D.
                Kubiatowicz},
      title = {The Cloud is Not Enough: Saving IoT from the Cloud},
      booktitle = {HotCloud15},
      day = {6},
      month = {July},
      year = {2015},
      abstract = {The Internet of Things (IoT) represents a new
                class of applications that can benefit hugely from
                the cloud. However, the current approach of
                directly connecting smart devices to the cloud has
                a number of disadvantages and is unlikely to keep
                up with either the speed of growth of IoT or the
                diverse needs of IoT applications. In this paper
                we explore these disadvantages and argue that
                fundamental properties of the IoT prevent the
                current approach from scaling. What is missing is
                a well-architected system that extends the
                functionality of the cloud and provides seamless
                interplay among the heterogeneous components in
                the IoT space. We argue that raising the level of
                abstraction to a data-centric design-- focused
                around the distribution, preservation and
                protection of information-- provides a much better
                match to the IoT.We present early work on such a
                distributed platform, called the Global Data Plane
                (GDP), and demonstrate how it addresses the
                problem with the cloud-centric architecture.},
      URL = {http://terraswarm.org/pubs/518.html}
  }
  

Posted by Barb Hoversten on 19 Mar 2015.