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Mimicking FogDirector application management

  • Stefano FortiEmail author
  • Ahmad Ibrahim
  • Antonio Brogi
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Abstract

CISCO FogDirector is one of the first available tools supporting the management of the entire life cycle of applications deployed to Fog infrastructures. In this paper, we present a simple operational semantics of the main features of FogDirector, which provides a compact reference for the tool. We then introduce a prototype, based on such semantics, that can constitute the core of a simulation environment of FogDirector application management. The usefulness of the prototype is illustrated over a motivating example.

Keywords

Fog computing Application management Fog Director Operational semantics Simulation 
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Acknowledgements

This work has been partly supported by the project DECLWARE: Declarative methodologies of application design and deployment (PRA_2018_66) funded by the University of Pisa, Italy.

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. 1.Department of Computer ScienceUniversity of PisaPisaItaly
  2. 2.School of Computer ScienceUniversity of BirminghamBirminghamUK

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