MobiFog 2020

The current trends in the Internet of Things (IoT) show a growing need for flexibility. Conventional IoT applications assumed homogeneous networks with static devices, while future applications are envisioning heterogeneous environments with different radio hardware, where nodes may or must move. Under unreliable constrained wireless networks for IoT networks, messages may frequently be lost or delayed. Consequently, as constrained devices communicate with different types of wireless networks, their connectivity may be frequently disrupted, and energy can be drained rapidly due to the massive amount of signaling messages used by network discovery.

Beside physical mobility, radio transceiver will also impose topological changes (known as logical mobility) in such a heterogeneous IoT network, which in turn will degrade network performance. The Fog Computing paradigm is an architectural enabler for designing more flexible networks. Fog computing extends Cloud-like services closer to the network edge to deal with IoT devices locally to carry out most of the storage, communication, control, configuration and management. This workshop is seeking novel submissions describing theoretical, simulations and experimental works that employ Fog computing architectures tackling mobility support in IoT networks.