Opportunistic Fog Computing with Browsers – OBrowser

Imagine designing and deploying a distributed application on millions of machines simply by posting a link on Twitter or by buying a word on Google Adwords. Imagine doing this without relying on a cloud or a central authority, just through a decentralized execution environment composed of users’ browsers that autonomously manages issues such as communication, naming, heterogeneity, and scalability. The introduction of browser-to-browser communication with WebRTC's Datachannel has made these scenarios closer, but today only experts can afford to tackle the technical challenges associated with large-scale browser-based deployments such as decentralized instant-messaging (Firechat) and Infrastructure-less Mission Critical Push To Talk. OBrowser aims to solve these challenges by means of a novel programming framework.