An Architecture Framework for Virtualization of IoT Network

The Internet of Things (IoT) market is constantly opening new business and market opportunities to connect the digital and physical worlds in many sectors such as smart-city, industry, agriculture, building, transportation, energy, etc. To support this major growth, we anticipate the adoption of mainstream Software Defined Networking SDN, Software Defined Radio (SDR) and Network Function Virtualization (NFV) technologies within the IoT systems to allow providing new ways of offering services in a more flexible, agile and cost-effective manner than today. This paper investigates the provision of NFV in the Internet of Things through the virtualization of full stack IoT functions, from radio processing functions to processing capabilities, that can be orchestrated dynamically and deployed on generic IoT devices. We provide a proof of concept to demonstrate the provisioning of end-to-end virtualized service function chain using the GNU Radio framework and dockers containers for isolation and VNF deployment and execution.