Another paper from our work on networking for cloud/fog infrastructures has been accepted to the 24th IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing (ISPDC), to be held in March 8-11, 2025 in Rennes, Bretagne, France! The paper is going to be presented by Somnath Mazumdar.
Reference: Mazumdar, Somnath and Dreibholz, Thomas: «Towards a Privacy-Aware Communication for Disaggregated Fog Platform» (PDF, 435 KiB, 8 pages, 🇬🇧), in Proceedings of the 24th IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing (ISPDC), Rennes, Bretagne/France, July 8, 2025.
Abstract: Fog computing is an intermediate layer between edge devices and cloud computing that provides execution support to minimize application delays. Fog aims at improving latency and the quality of experience. Unlike legacy monolithic systems, in which resources are tightly coupled, disaggregated architectures aim to improve resource utilization, scalability, and energy efficiency, while supporting various large-scale workloads. This paper proposes a data communication fabric for disaggregated hardware-architecture-based fog platforms. Particularly, it integrates an often-overlooked component, i.e., privacy as a core design principle. The proposed architecture focuses on distributed and decentralized network traffic management using a vector packet processing platform. To improve latency and privacy, we have presented a target disaggregated hardware and a communication mechanism for efficient data packet management at local and global levels. We demonstrated that vector-packet-processing-based switches outperform traditional Linux bridging, achieving higher throughput (up to 1.7 Gbit/s vs. 0.9 Gbit/s) and lower latency (under 1 ms kernel-space round-trip time).
