eScience Serverless Data Storage Services in the Edge-Fog-Cloud Continuum

Abstract

MeshStore, a fault-tolerant serverless storage model for edge-fog-cloud continuum systems, enables organizations to integrate distributed heterogeneous storage resources into a single unified storage service for the sharing of data through serverless functions deployed on edge-fog-cloud environments to create continuum dataflows. This unified service automatically and transparently manages the input/output data of serverless functions by coupling storage structures, including load-balancing and data allocation/location algorithms. Organizations also can add non-functional requirement properties (e.g., either reliability or security) to the storage structures when managing sensitive data.