Abstract :
Cloud computing provides a rich set of applications to more resource-limited mobile devices. The traditional cloud data center has its limitations, however, in terms of the connectivity, latency, bandwidth, and agility provided to mobile devices. Cloud-type resources (agile computation and storage) are needed at the edge of the network, where the people live -- in access points, in cars, in homes, in coffee shops, etc. Moreover, the most interesting, timely data are generated at the edge, by the billions of mobile devices and soon hundreds of billions of smart sensors in the Internet of Things. Thus, data management tasks -- query processing, analytics, indexing, caching, storage, privacy protection -- should be increasingly done at the edge in a distributed, streaming fashion. This talk presents our ongoing work in this area at the Intel Science and Technology Center for Cloud Computing, and important future directions.
