The IEEE Standards Association has adopted the OpenFog Reference Architecture as a high-level foundation for the development of a new fog computing standard.
The new standard, known as IEEE 1934, relies on the reference architecture as a universal technical framework that enables the data-intensive requirements of the IoT, 5G and artificial intelligence (AI) applications.
The OpenFog Consortium was founded more than two years ago to accelerate adoption of fog computing through an open, interoperable architecture
The OpenFog Reference Architecture, released in February 2017, is based on eight core technical principles - security, scalability, openness, autonomy, RAS (reliability, availability, and serviceability), agility, hierarchy and programmability. The reference architecture, and now the IEEE standard, addresses the need for an interoperable end-to-end data connectivity solution along the cloud-to-things continuum.
Helder Antunes, Chairman of the OpenFog and Senior Director, Cisco
We now have an industry-backed and -supported blueprint that will supercharge the development of new applications and business models made possible through fog computing.
John Zao, Chair, IEEE Standards Working Group on Fog Computing & Networking Architecture Framework
The OpenFog technical committee and the IEEE standards committee worked closely during this process and benefited from the collaboration and synergies that developed. We’re very pleased with the results of this standards effort.
