Systematic Mapping on Orchestration of Container-based Applications in Fog Computing

Abstract

There is an increasing number of Internet of Things (IoT) devices in the border of computer networks, requiring local processing and lightweight virtualization to deal with issues such as heterogeneity, Quality of Service (QoS) management, scalability, mobility, federation, and interoperability. Fog computing can provide the computational resources required by IoT devices to process their data. Low energy consumption and total cost of ownership are among the desirable properties for auxiliar infrastructures such as those deployed for fog computing, which do not require large computational power though. There is a noteworthy trend of undergoing research efforts towards the definition of software and hardware architectures for fog computing in this context. In this sense, this paper presents a Systematic Literature Mapping with the purpose of understanding and identifying metrics and gaps in current literature about orchestration of container-based applications, especially those hosted in clusters of Single Board Computer (SBC) platforms, such as Raspberry Pi, which have been used for deploying fog computing environments.