Fog for 5G and IoT

4You Deserve Better Properties (From Your Smart Devices)

STEVEN Y. KO

University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, Buffalo, NY, USA

This chapter offers a viewpoint for operating systems in fog networking. The central claim is the following—we need to provide better properties for the operating systems in fog networking. This means that the current operating systems do not provide necessary properties for fog networking, and the needs for new and better properties are arising. To support this claim in a comprehensive manner, we answer four questions. The first is why—why we need to provide better properties. The answer to this question gives us the motivation for further research. The second question is where—where we need to provide better properties. Here we make a case that we should examine existing operating systems first. The third question is what—what new or better properties we need to provide. To answer this question, we use three case studies drawn from our own research to demonstrate what kinds of properties we need to provide. The fourth question is how—how we can provide better properties. The answer to this question gives us the realizations of better properties.

In answering these four questions, we put more weight on the last two questions. The reason is that we do not necessarily raise new points in our answers to the first two questions; we mostly include the discussions for the sake of completeness. Nevertheless, we hope that examining these ...