Declarative Application Management in the Fog. A bacteria-inspired decentralised approach

Abstract

Orchestrating next gen applications over hterogeneous resources along the Cloud-IoT continuum calls for new strategies and tools to enable scalable and application-specific managements. Inspired by the self-organisation capabilities of bacteria colonies, we propose a declarative, fully decentralised application management solution, targeting pervasive opportunistic Cloud-IoT infrastructures. We present acustomisable declarative implementation of the approach and validate its scalability through simulation over motivating scenarios, also considering end-user's mobility and the possibility to enforce application-specific management policies for different classes of applications.