Implementations of Droplets in Managed Network Blocks

Abstract

In recent years, the use of cloud computing has become more widespread, as has the use of edge computing through distributed systems such as the Internet of Things. Instead of processing everything in the cloud, it is necessary to process information in distributed nodes. We propose the idea of managed network blocks (MNBs) in this paper, which have three features. First, MNBs provide cloud-managed network services to small networks such as home networks. Second, MNBs realizes network address translation traversal because it is based on mist architecture which consists of three components: clouds, mist (so-called cloudlets) and droplets. Mist and droplets are usually located in private local-area networks. Finally, MNBs support reconfigurable devices named droplets. In this paper, we describe the functions of droplets and how to implement them.