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The Cloud is Not Enough: Saving IoT from the Cloud
Ben Zhang, Nitesh Mor, John Kolb, Douglas S. Chan, Nikhil Goyal, Ken Lutz, Eric Allman, John Wawrzynek, Edward A. Lee, John Kubiatowicz

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Ben Zhang, Nitesh Mor, John Kolb, Douglas S. Chan, Nikhil Goyal, Ken Lutz, Eric Allman, John Wawrzynek, Edward A. Lee, John Kubiatowicz. "The Cloud is Not Enough: Saving IoT from the Cloud". Proceedings of the 7th USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Cloud Computing (HotCloud), 6, July, 2015.

Abstract
The Internet of Things (IoT) represents a new class of applications that can benefit from cloud infrastructure. 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 growing speed of the 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 discuss how it addresses the problems with the cloud-centric architecture

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    Ben Zhang, Nitesh Mor, John Kolb, Douglas S. Chan, Nikhil
    Goyal, Ken Lutz, Eric Allman, John Wawrzynek, Edward A. Lee,
    John Kubiatowicz. <a
    href="http://chess.eecs.berkeley.edu/pubs/1145.html"
    >The Cloud is Not Enough: Saving IoT from the
    Cloud</a>, Proceedings of the 7th USENIX Workshop on
    Hot Topics in Cloud Computing (HotCloud), 6, July, 2015.
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    Ben Zhang, Nitesh Mor, John Kolb, Douglas S. Chan, Nikhil
    Goyal, Ken Lutz, Eric Allman, John Wawrzynek, Edward A. Lee,
    John Kubiatowicz. "The Cloud is Not Enough: Saving IoT
    from the Cloud". Proceedings of the 7th USENIX Workshop
    on Hot Topics in Cloud Computing (HotCloud), 6, July, 2015.
  • BibTeX
    @inproceedings{ZhangMorKolbChanGoyalLutzAllmanWawrzynekLeeKubiatowicz15_CloudIsNotEnoughSavingIoTFromCloud,
        author = {Ben Zhang and Nitesh Mor and John Kolb and Douglas
                  S. Chan and Nikhil Goyal and Ken Lutz and Eric
                  Allman and John Wawrzynek and Edward A. Lee and
                  John Kubiatowicz},
        title = {The Cloud is Not Enough: Saving IoT from the Cloud},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the 7th USENIX Workshop on Hot
                  Topics in Cloud Computing (HotCloud)},
        day = {6},
        month = {July},
        year = {2015},
        abstract = {The Internet of Things (IoT) represents a new
                  class of applications that can benefit from cloud
                  infrastructure. 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 growing speed of the 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 discuss how it addresses the problems
                  with the cloud-centric architecture},
        URL = {http://chess.eecs.berkeley.edu/pubs/1145.html}
    }
    

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