Smart and connected communities and their associated edge devices are creating new
demands on network services. Edge network connectivity is often not resilient to failures …

By processing sensory data in the vicinity of its generation, edge computing reduces latency,
improves responsiveness, and saves network bandwidth in data-intensive applications …

This dissertation explores issues of resilience in pervasive Internet of Things (IoT)
deployments. It discusses facilitating the classic observe-analyze-adapt loop by addressing …

This paper considers the reliable delivery of sensor data from Internet of Things (IoT)
devices to distributed cloud service instances in the face of localized failures for event …

As the number of low cost computing devices at the edge of communication network
increase, there are greater opportunities to enable innovative capabilities, especially in …

Safe Community Awareness and Alerting Network (SCALE) is a community
government/academic/industry partnership effort that aims to deploy, actuate and evaluate …

Many different technologies fostering and supporting distributed and decentralized
computing scenarios emerged recently. Edge computing provides the necessary on …

Information and communications systems in Japan were badly damaged by the great
earthquake and tsunami on March 11, 2011. Their importance as societal infrastructure was …

The loT (Internet of things) is emerging as a wide variety of devices are attached to the
Internet to support ubiquitous and pervasive sensing and computing, home automation, and …

When a disaster strikes a city, conventional information networking infrastructure can be
damaged or completely lost, leading to suffering or loss of life. These consequences are …