MobiFog: Mobility Management Framework for Fog-Assisted IoT Networks

Mobility is becoming a challenging issue in upcoming IoT applications, where it is crucial to employ mobile entities. Patients with sensors attached to their body in health monitoring application, AGVs in industrial monitoring and factory automation applications, cars with several sensing devices in vehicular applications are a few examples of use cases with the need for mobile nodes. In parallel, Fog computing has revolutionized network architecture, while enabling local processing of measurements, and reducing bandwidth overhead, which results in a more reliable system and real-time support. However, mobility management is a missing framework within the mobile IoT networks with Fog computing architecture. This paper provides a simple and generic seamless handoff model, dubbed as MobiFog, where it addresses the handoff mechanism with zero delay, while providing high reliability.