MACaaS Platform for Fog Computing

With the development of the Internet of Things(IoT), where things are connected to the Internet, the number of IoT services and users is increasing day by day. Cloud computing is widely used to save and process the huge amounts of data generated by increasing IoT devices efficiently. However transmission delay problem occurs in the cloud computing environment because the huge amounts of data generated by the IoT devices is saved in the remote cloud servers. To solve this problem, fog computing emerged. Fog computing is a concept that brings cloud servers close to user area to provide high quality service by reducing the network transmission time. In this paper, we propose a Monitoring, Analyzing, and Controlling as a Service, which called MACaaS, platform for the fog computing. The proposed MACaaS platform provides services for monitoring, analyzing and controlling various IoT devices. In addition, the proposed platform can easily expand new services according to the additional requirements of IoT devices and users and provide the consistent interface for integrating various IoT devices.