System and Method for Work Distribution in a Fog Network via Code Offloading

A method comprising:

• designating at least one portion of an application program for execution on a first fog network node that is ideal candidate for execution in a second fog network node;
• creating a first executable of the application program for execution on the first fog network node and a second executable of the at least one portion of the application program for execution on the second fog network node;
• creating a container image from the second executable for an operating system on the second fog network node;
• and
• registering the container image in a registry.

A method comprising:

• determining a need to offload execution of at least one portion of an application program for execution in a first fog network node to a second fog network node;
• accessing a registry to identify and locate a container image created from an executable code of the at least one portion of the application program;
• loading the identified container image in the second fog network node;
• starting a container hosted by the second fog network node in response to the container image being loaded;
• executing the executable code of the application program in the second fog network node;
• and
• returning a result from executing the executable code in the second fog network node to the first fog network node.