Deviceless Edge Computing: Extending serverless computing to the edge of the network

Abstract

The serverless paradigm has been rapidly adopted by developers of cloud-native applications, mainly because it relieves them from the burden of provisioning, scaling and operating the underlying infrastructure. In this paper, we propose a novel computing paradigm - Deviceless Edge Computing that extends the serverless paradigm to the edge of the network, enabling IoT and Edge devices to be seamlessly integrated as application execution infrastructure. We also discuss open challenges to realize Deviceless Edge Computing, based on our experience in prototyping a deviceless platform.