@proceedings {423,
	title = {Characterizing IoT Cloud Federation},
	journal = {2016 30th International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications Workshops (WAINA)  - Workshop on Cloud Computing Project and Initiatives - CCPI{\textquoteright}16},
	year = {2016},
	publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
	address = {Le R{\'e}gent Congress Centre, Crans-Montana, Switzerland},
	abstract = {<p class="rtejustify">The advent of both Cloud computing and Internet of Things (IoT) is changing the way of conceiving information and communication systems. Generally, we talk about IoT Cloud to indicate a new type of distributed system consisting of a set of smart devices interconnected with a remote Cloud infrastructure, platform, or software through the Internet and able to provide IoT as a Service (IoTaaS).\&nbsp;In this paper, we discuss the near future evolution of IoT Clouds towards federated ecosystems, where IoT providers cooperate to offer more flexible services.\&nbsp;Moreover, we present a general three-layer IoT Cloud Federation architecture, highlighting new business opportunities and challenges.\&nbsp;</p>
},
	keywords = {cloud computing, containers, federation, IoT, virtualisation},
	issn = {978-1-5090-2461-2/16},
	doi = {10.1109/WAINA.2016.152},
	url = {http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=7471179},
	author = {Antonio Celesti and Maria Fazio and Maurizio Giacobbe and Antonio Puliafito and Massimo Villari}
}
