Application based intelligent edge computing in a low power wide area network environment

At least one non-transitory machine readable storage medium including code for execution that, when executed by at least one processor, causes the at least one processor to perform operations comprising:

• receiving, at a central network server, two or more requests to join a network from an end device via two or more gateways, respectively;
• selecting one of the two or more gateways for the end device;
• and
• sending, to the selected gateway, a response to at least one of the two or more requests to join the network received via the selected gateway, wherein the response includes an indication to the selected gateway to forward the request to join the network to an edge network server associated with the selected gateway;
• designating the selected gateway as a primary gateway for the end device;
• designating at least one other gateway of the two or more gateways as a secondary gateway for the end device;
• receiving, from the secondary gateway, metadata associated with a message received by the secondary gateway from the end device;
• and
• evaluating the metadata received from the secondary gateway to determine whether to change designations of primary gateway and secondary gateway for the end device.

An apparatus, comprising:

• at least one processor;
• logic that, when executed by the at least one processor is to:
• receive, at a central network server, two or more requests to join a network from an end device via two or more gateways, respectively;
• select one of the two or more gateways for the end device;
• and
• send, to the selected gateway, a response to at least one of the two or more requests to join the network received via the selected gateway, wherein the response includes an indication to the selected gateway to forward the request to join the network to an edge network server associated with the selected gateway;
• designate the selected gateway as a primary gateway for the end device;
• designate at least one other gateway of the two or more gateways as a secondary gateway for the end device;
• receive, from the secondary gateway, metadata associated with a message received by the secondary gateway from the end device;
• and
• evaluate the metadata received from the secondary gateway to determine whether to change designations of primary gateway and secondary gateway for the end device.

A method, comprising:

• receiving at a gateway to a network, a message from a central network server to accept a request to join the network from an end device;
• determining whether the message includes an extension;
• forwarding the request to join the network to an edge network server based on determining the message includes the extension, wherein the edge network server provides a path for application data received from the end device to an application server, wherein the path bypasses the central network server;
• receiving a second message from the end device, the second message containing application data generated by the end device;
• and
• forwarding the second message to the edge network server, wherein the second message from the end device is forwarded by the edge network server to a fog application collocated on a network device with the edge network server, wherein the fog application performs one or more analytic computations associated with data included in the second message from the end device.