Architechture



Four Users


Infrastructure Owner
Infrastructure Owner

The provider of Edge devices.


Edge Service Provider
Edge Service Provider

The designer and onboarder of Edge Applications.


Edge Service Operator
Edge Service Operator

The service operator dealing with the management and operation of Edge Applications.


End User
End User

The users accessing the system via the End User Apps.



Actions



>>resource Management





Resource Management
Resource Creation

Resource
Status Query

Resource
Discovery

Resource
Reconfiguration

Resource Deletion

5 types of APIs in Resource Management

The service APIs are used for the resource management and communication between the components. As shown in the Figure, these service APIs can be used to do several common operations on the resources, including resource creation, resource status query, resource search, resource reconfiguration, and resource deletion. The resources we mention here include physical resources and virtual resources. The physical resources are the hardware equipment available for the edge system, including physical servers, facilities, and infrastructure. The virtual resources can be considered as the software, computing, networking, and storage resources in the system, as well as the virtualised infrastructure.

>>Application Management





Application Management
App Onboarding

App Instantiation

Context
Creation

App
Reconfiguration

Context Deletion
App Termination

6 types of APIs in Application Lifecycle Management

To provide the complete lifecycle management of edge applications, the system has to have knowledge about the application runtime information, thus it is necessary to specify the procedures and the message flows between all components involved.

>>Standard Documents

Name Link
1935-2023 - IEEE Standard for Edge/Fog Manageability and Orchestration Link
Hung-Yu Wei, Yao Chiang, and Tse-Yu Chen, “Design for Edge/Fog Platform Management and Orchestration,” technical contribution to IEEE P1935 standard working group (archieved in IEEE SA contributors collection), 2023 Link
Hung-Yu Wei, Yao Chiang, and Tse-Yu Chen, “Design for Edge/Fog Application Management and Orchestration,” technical contribution to IEEE P1935 standard working group (archieved in IEEE SA contributors collection), 2023 Link
Hung-Yu Wei, Yao Chiang, and Tse-Yu Chen, “Framework and Elements for Edge/Fog Manageability and Orchestration,” technical contribution to IEEE P1935 standard working group (archieved in IEEE SA contributors collection), 2023 Link

>>External Links

Name Link
Fog/Edge Industry Community of IEEE Communication Society Link