Evolved capillary networks with cloud. Demo presented at Mobile World Congress 2015 by Jan Melén, Nicklas Beijar and Jaime Jimenez, Ericsson Research.
Large scale IoT device deployments and device management. Processing large data efficiently.
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Features
IoT Framework
Virtual Middleware
Cloud
Mobile
Core
Capillary
Network
Function &
Manager
Capillary
Gateway
Bluetooth,
802.11,
802.15.4
User
Management
Authentication based on SIM credentials
Auto-conf, Discovery and Registration
Platform for Middleware & Services
GW Selection for Machine Devices
Storage and filtering of data
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› Large scale IoT device
deployments and device
management
– Costly to manage as number of devices
explode
› Processing large data efficiently
– Different data has different
requirements
– Real-time vs. non-real-time
› Need to support a variety of
applications with different
requirements
Challenges
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Large-Scale
Management
Management
LWM2M
Proxy
Auto-conf, Discovery and Registration
One-to-Many Instead of One-to-One
Lower Management, Deployment Cost
Efficient Use of Network Resources
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Distributed
Virtualization
Aggregation & Processing on Edges
Deploy Software on Demand
Reduced Overhead of App. Instances
Auto-scaling Compute Resources
Low Latency Control Loops
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Opportunities
E2E Management and Group Management of devices
Paradigm change from one-to-one to one-to-many
Automated tasks and no cost management
Lightweight virtualization for content aggregation
Enabling content aggregation near data sources
Dynamic provisioning of resources on demand
Enabling processing and aggregation of large data sets