FocusStack: Orchestrating Edge Clouds Using Location-Based Focus of Attention

Allocating and managing resources in the Internet ofThings (IoT) presents many new challenges, including massivescale, new security issues, and new resource types that becomecritical in making orchestration decisions. In this paper, weinvestigate whether clouds of edge devices can be managed asInfrastructure-as-a-Service clouds. We describe our approach, FocusStack, that uses location based situational awareness, implemented over a multi-tier geographic addressing network, to solve the problems of inefficient awareness messaging andmixed initiative control that IoT device clouds raise for traditionalcloud management tools. We provide an extended casestudy of a shared video application as initial demonstrationand evaluation of the work and show that we effectively solvethe two key problems above.