Software-Defined Maritime Fog Computing: Architecture, Advantages, and Feasibility

Advances in sensing and communication technologies have enabled emerging applications in ocean research. The stringent resource limitations, however, hinder local task processing on maritime devices. Cloud-based task offloading is also not feasible due to the unaffordable costs induced by satellite...

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Published in:IEEE network 2022-03, Vol.36 (2), p.26-33
Main Authors: Zhu, Chao, Zhang, Wenjun, Chiang, Yi-Han, Ye, Neng, Du, Lei, An, Jianping
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Cloud computing
Communications technology
Computation offloading
Computer architecture
Edge computing
Feasibility
Marine vehicles
Maritime communication
Oceans
Satellite communications
Sea measurements
Sea vessels
Software defined networking
Task analysis
Trajectory
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Summary:Advances in sensing and communication technologies have enabled emerging applications in ocean research. The stringent resource limitations, however, hinder local task processing on maritime devices. Cloud-based task offloading is also not feasible due to the unaffordable costs induced by satellite links. In this work, we propose a visionary architecture on software-defined maritime fog computing (SD-MFC), which adopts fog computing to provide localized services and uses software-defined networking technology to provide the abstraction of underlying resources. In SD-MFC, coastal infrastructures and large-size vessels are turned into maritime fog nodes to process the tasks generated by surrounding maritime devices. By exploration of a real-world vessel trajectory dataset, the feasibility and effectiveness of the proposed SD-MFC are verified.
ISSN:0890-8044
1558-156X
DOI:10.1109/MNET.003.2100433