Towards Container-Based Resource Management for the Internet of Things

The Internet of Things (IoT) paradigm gains momentum for vendors, developers and users. A variety of available devices and technologies promote the deployment of solutions and applications in various domains. However, the increasing amount of IoT devices leads to an increasing amount of resources made available to the users. If devices like smart phones or smart TVs are considered, this includes computing and storage resources. In order to increase the utilization of these IoT resources and reduce the amount of generated network traffic, we propose a container-based resource allocation scheme. The approach allows various applications and users to dynamically allocate resources offered by edge devices and process IoT data close to the source. The approach is evaluated regarding its feasibility in terms of performance on resource constrained IoT devices.