multiFIA - Multi-dimensional Future Internet Architecture

Rapid growth in Internet of Things (IoT) has resulted in the need for effective management and provisioning of resources in an IoT-based system. The resource may be an entity (virtual or physical) that constitutes the IoT system, such as network elements, gateways, cloud data stores, and sensors. The dynamic and constantly changing nature of request by a typical user for resource allocation demands end-to-end slices of an IoT system. In order to meet such requests, end-to-end slices need to be integrated, ultimately making it necessary to control and aggregate diverse types of resources from IoT, cloud infrastructures, and network functions. To that end, in this paper, we propose a framework for IoT resources management and provisioning. Our proposed approach enables to automate resource management and provisioning for users across IoT, clouds, and network functions by virtualizing access to underlying IoT resources and utilizing APIs to employ those resources. Furthermore, our proposed approach aims to establish and manage end-to-end slices of various types of resources from distributed and diverse infrastructure. In this paper, we present multiFIA - multi-dimensional Future Internet Architecture - which permits IoT system designers to accommodate multiple user demands by establishing end-to-end slices of the overall IoT network. We outline multiFIA components and layers and also describe our approach to an implementation of multiFIA.