Title: On the use of container-based virtualisation for IoT provisioning and orchestration: a survey

Authors: Haleema Essa Solayman; Rawaa Putros Qasha

Addresses: Department of Mathematics, College of Computer Sciences and Mathematics, University of Mosul, Mosul, 00964, Iraq ' Department of Mathematics, College of Computer Sciences and Mathematics, University of Mosul, Mosul, 00964, Iraq

Abstract: The Internet of Things (IoT) has great potential to be adopted by applications covering several smart domains, as it consists of a set of physically linked objects that can be accessed through the internet. Virtualisation techniques play an important role in the field of IoT, especially for provisioning and orchestrating IoT applications to overcome the heterogeneity and diversity of the IoT components and environments that host the applications. Recently, container virtualisation became the preferred technique for IoT applications due to providing execution isolation, portability, lightweight deployment, and reduced design time as compared with hypervisor-based virtualisation. This survey presents a comprehensive study of provisioning and orchestrating the distributed IoT applications in different environments like Edge and Cloud Computing, and how containers can be used proficiently for provisioning and orchestrating IoT applications in these environments.

Keywords: IoT; Internet of Things; IoT provisioning; IoT orchestration; container-based virtualisation; cloud computing; edge computer.

DOI: 10.1504/IJCSM.2023.135042

International Journal of Computing Science and Mathematics, 2023 Vol.18 No.4, pp.299 - 311

Accepted: 07 Mar 2023
Published online: 28 Nov 2023 *

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