Devices networking, service enablement, and clustering

Generally, edge devices such as implantables, wearables, portables, gateways, mobiles, handhelds, consumer electronics, and robots may be primarily resource-constrained. Most of these devices are not static and typically nomadic. Establishing seamless connectivity among them for process, application, and data integration is a tedious and tough affair indeed. Geo-distributed computation on edge devices, therefore, requires a lightweight, intrinsically extensible, and intelligent platform to handle extremely fragile service deployment, delivery, and management. Open Service Gateway interface (OSGi) is an interesting framework for elegantly activating and administering resource-constrained, embedded and connected devices, and their unique services. Any service or application can be containerized and can be loaded with all kinds of participating devices. Then an instance of the OSGi package can be containerized and hosted in a reasonably powerful device stationed at the user environment in order to discover and manage all kinds of devices and their service containers inside. This kind of setup enables centralized (from the cloud) as well as decentralized monitoring, measurement, and management of device services. The Dockerized platform is a proven mechanism to install, configure, manage, upgrade, and terminate running services.

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