IEEE Standard
The OpenFog reference architecture
The OpenFog reference architecture of the OpenFog consortium has now been adopted by the IEEE Standards Association (IEEE-SA) as the official standard for fog computing.
The new standard, named IEEE 1934, is based on the reference architecture as a universal technical framework that enables the data-intensive requirements of IoT, 5G and AI applications. "We now have an industry-supported concept that enhances the development of new applications and business models enabled by Fog Computing," says Helder Antunes, Chair of the OpenFog Consortium and Senior Director of Cisco.
Fog Computing is a horizontal, system-level architecture that distributes compute, storage, control and networking resources and services along the Cloud to Things continuum. It supports multiple vertical industries and application domains, enables the distribution of services and applications closer to the data-producing sources, and extends from things to network edges, to the cloud, and across multiple protocol layers. The OpenFog consortium was founded more than two years ago to accelerate the adoption of fog computing through an open, interoperable architecture.
The OpenFog reference architecture, published in February 2017, is based on eight core technical principles, known as pillars, which represent the key attributes that a system must include in order to be defined as "OpenFog". These are security, scalability, openness, autonomy, RAS (reliability, availability and maintainability), agility, hierarchy and programmability.
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