A Policy-based Framework in Fog enabled Internet of Things for Cooperative ITS

Abstract

In recent years, Fog computing has been proposed to complement well-known Cloud components, in order to realize delay-sensitive and location-aware services. In a future digital landscape with billions of IoT devices interconnected, this emerging paradigm will enable a more decentralized and flexible management by bringing data processing and distribution closer to end devices. One of the main challenges in fog scenarios is the need for automating the orchestration of end devices and components through scalable approaches. In this direction, this work represents an ongoing effort related to the potential application of policy-based approaches to mitigate the issues associated to fog orchestration. In particular, we propose the use of Seckit as a model-based and technology-independent toolkit to ease the management of IoT devices through the use of policy specification. Additionally, we considered a Cooperative Intelligent Transport Systems (C-ITS) use case to give some insights about the advantages of using the proposed approach.