The fast growth of Internet-connected embedded devices demands for new capabilities at the network edge. These new capabilities are local processing, efficient communications, and resource virtualization. The current work aims to address these capabilities by designing and deploying a new management proposal, which offers on-demand activation of offline Internet of Things (IoT) fog computing assets via a Software Defined Networking (SDN) based solution combined with containerization and sensor virtualization. We propose a testbed as a proof of concept for the main functionalities of this novel solution. The obtained results evidence that the current SDN-based solution can deploy with success activation policies on computational edge containers, which are located within the same network domain of the SDN controller. In addition, different application-level scenarios are also investigated.

翻译：互联网连接嵌入式设备的快速增长要求网络边缘具备新能力，即本地处理、高效通信和资源虚拟化。本研究旨在通过设计并部署一种新的管理方案来满足上述能力，该方案结合基于软件定义网络（SDN）的解决方案、容器化及传感器虚拟化技术，实现离线物联网（IoT）雾计算资产的按需激活。我们提出一个测试床作为该创新方案主要功能的概念验证。结果表明，当前基于SDN的解决方案能够成功对位于SDN控制器同一网络域内的计算边缘容器实施激活策略。此外，我们还在不同应用层场景下进行了探究。