Princeton, NJ - According to John Sullivan of Princeton University, "As everyday items from cars to watches increasingly use computers and communications to operate, the demand on networks that connect devices is expected to balloon. In response, engineers are working to harness the devices' own computing, sensing and storage power to form networks that meet most of the demand. These networks have been dubbed "fog computing," a name that emphasizes their local, diffuse nature as opposed to more distant "cloud computing." Now, researchers at Princeton University's Edge Lab are leading a global effort, with scientists and business leaders at ARM, Cisco, Dell, Intel and Microsoft, to develop the architecture and tools for using these new fog networks."
The researchers announced the new nonprofit group, the Open Fog Consortium, at the Internet of Things World Forum in Dubai on Dec. 6. The group seeks to build a basic architecture for fog networking in coming years, and has opened its membership to companies and universities worldwide. The consortium expects to deliver reports detailing best practices for the new technologies as they are developed, said Mung Chiang, the Princeton Edge Lab director and co-founder of the Open Fog Consortium.
The goal, the consortium announced, is to "define a common framework for distributed computing based on open standard technologies."
Chiang said he helped to launch the consortium to address common problems with "edge networks" — the connections at the periphery of a more centralized network, close to the actual devices that use the network. Currently mobile edge networks suffer from connection losses, bottlenecks in bandwidth and excessive time communicating with different points in the network, a problem known as latency.
For the full story: http://www.princeton.edu/research/news/features/a/?id=15991
The goal, the consortium announced, is to "define a common framework for distributed computing based on open standard technologies."
Chiang said he helped to launch the consortium to address common problems with "edge networks" — the connections at the periphery of a more centralized network, close to the actual devices that use the network. Currently mobile edge networks suffer from connection losses, bottlenecks in bandwidth and excessive time communicating with different points in the network, a problem known as latency.
For the full story: http://www.princeton.edu/research/news/features/a/?id=15991
