Smart Virtualization for IoT

Nowadays, the cloud hosts the majority of IoT virtualizations. This approach depends on an active Internet connection. The question that emerges is how we can move those virtualizations to the edge of IoT networks without losing the power and flexibility from the cloud but fulfilling the requirements of constrained and pervasive environments. This research presents an architecture that integrates dew computing to provision virtual resources at the edge level. This architecture proposes smart virtual resources deployed towards edge devices to provide data views and IoT services to users. This approach goes beyond traditional IoT virtualizations and builds distributed virtual systems that include the benefits of the cloud, fog, and dew computing to provide services directly at the edge level.