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Bringing the Cloud to Rural and Remote Areas via Cloudlets

Abstract

Instead of relying on huge and expensive data centers for rolling out cloud-based services to rural and remote areas, we propose a hardware platform based on small single-board computers. The role of these micro-data centers is twofold. On the one hand, they act as intermediaries between cloud services and clients, improving availability in the case of network or power outages. On the other hand, they run community-based services on local infrastructure. We illustrate how to build such a system without incurring high costs, high power consumption, or single points of failure. Additionally, we opt for a system that is extendable and scalable as well as easy to deploy, relying on an open design

Category

Academic chapter

Language

English

Author(s)

  • Sven Helmer
  • Claus Pahl
  • Julian Sanin
  • Stefan Brocanelli
  • Filippo Cardano
  • Daniele Gadler
  • Daniel Morandini
  • Alessandro Piccoli
  • Saifur Salam
  • Alam Mahabub Sharear
  • Angelo Ventura
  • Pekka Kalevi Abrahamsson
  • Tosin Daniel Oyetoyan

Affiliation

  • SINTEF Digital / Software Engineering, Safety and Security
  • Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
  • Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Year

2016

Publisher

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

Book

ACM DEV '16 : Proceedings of the 7th Annual Symposium on Computing for Development, Nairobi, Kenya — November 18 - 20, 2016

ISBN

9781450346498

View this publication at Norwegian Research Information Repository