Systems and Methods For Allocating and Managing Resources in an Internet of Things Environment Using Location Based Focus of Attention

A computer-readable storage medium having a tangible physical structure, the computer-readable storage medium comprising executable instructions that when executed by a processor cause the processor to effectuate:

• receiving, at a location based situational awareness subsystem, from a user, a request to build an awareness picture of an area of interest;
• sending a geographically addressed message to a set of edge compute devices in a geocast region defined by the area of interest wherein the geographically addressed message contains a set of requirements of a desired resource;
• receiving, at the location based situational awareness subsystem from a first subset of the set of edge compute devices, responses that satisfy the set of requirements;
• building a first list of edge devices that satisfy the set of requirements from the responses;
• sending the first list of edge devices to a constraint solving algorithm in an OpenStack extension subsystem;
• receiving from the OpenStack extension subsystem a second list of edge devices having capabilities and resource availability to satisfy the set of requirements wherein the second list of edge devices is derived from filtering of the first list of edge devices using the constraint solving algorithm;
• and
• sending the second list of edge devices to the user.

A system comprising:

• a server;
• a computer readable storage medium having instructions for execution by the server which causes the server to manage a query,
• wherein the server is coupled to the computer readable storage medium, the server executing the instructions on the computer readable storage medium to:
• receive at a location based situational awareness subsystem, from a user, a request to build an awareness picture of an area of interest;
• send a geographically addressed message to a set of edge compute devices in a geocast region defined by the area of interest wherein the geographically addressed message contains a set of requirements of a desired resource;
• receive, at the location based situational awareness subsystem from a first subset of the set of edge compute devices, responses that satisfy the set of requirements;
• build a first list of edge devices that satisfy the set of requirements from the responses;
• send the first list of edge devices to a constraint solving algorithm in an OpenStack extension subsystem;
• receive from the OpenStack extension subsystem a second list of edge devices having capabilities and resource availability to satisfy the set of requirements wherein the second list of edge devices is derived from filtering of the first list of edge devices using the constraint solving algorithm;
• and
• send the second list of edge devices to the user.