You Deserve Better Properties (From Your Smart Devices)

This chapter offers a viewpoint for operating systems in fog networking. It argues that there is a need to provide better properties in the operating systems in fog networking. In order to comprehensively support the argument, the chapter analyzes the need of providing better properties and shows where to provide those better properties. It also explains what properties need to provide and how to provide those properties. The chapter discusses some of the properties need to provide: transparency, predictable performance, and openness. Transparency allows users, developers, and researchers to understand why a system is doing what it is doing at any point of time. The chapter discusses an example ‐ information flow transparency, which reveals how an application uses the data of its user. As new application contexts emerge and new devices appear, operating systems will also need to adapt new technologies and evolve.