Towards an Edge-Fog-Cloud Serverless Continuum for IoT Data Processing Pipeline

Abstract

As most of the Internet of Things (IoT) applications are event-driven, the emergence of the serverless computing paradigm, which is a natural fit for event-driven applications, is promising to host multi-tenant IoT applications. Furthermore, the increasing resource capability of low-cost edge and fog devices provides an opportunity to take advantage of resources available and leads to the edge-fog-cloud computing continuum, which can conduct processing across the entire computing continuum. To identify the necessary adaptations for the serverless computing continuum, we integrate the serverless paradigm in each layer of the computing continuum and investigate performance parameters by running serverless workloads using benchmarks.