Social Networking and Caching Aided Collaborative Computing for the Internet of Things

The IoT, as the latest information technology, is expected to support the ubiquitous connectivity of anything, anytime and anywhere. Since numerous IoT devices will be connected to cellular networks, the conflicting demands of ultra-low latency, massive connectivity and high reliability impose significant burdens on the operational wireless networks. Exploiting various temporarily unused computational and storage resources by invoking cooperative caching and computing has the potential of supporting these demanding applications. One of the key characteristics of next-generation networks is the boom of applications in social networking. By exploiting the benefits of social networking, the burdens imposed on wireless networks by the IoT applications can be mitigated by the proposed caching assisted collaborative computing IoT framework.