Ramps: Next Generation Platform for Real Time and Resilient IoT Analytics using MmWave and Programmable Switches

ABSTRACTReal time IoT analytics remains a challenging problem due to the distributed nature of the analytics platform (comprising sensors, edge server(s), and actuators), which raises three fundamental challenges of (i) how to map computations to a distributed and heterogeneous compute fabric, (ii) how to communicate multi-Gbps of data wirelessly between sensors and edge servers for high analytics accuracy, and (iii) how to effectively share the communication channel between multiple sensor-edge network streams. To meet these challenges, we envision an analytics platform that will tightly couple the application stack, the network stack, and emerging networking technologies, namely mmWave wireless and programmable switches, to meet both the computation and communication demands for real time IoT analytics.