and thus facilitating new applications and services. This enhanced computing paradigm is provides new opportunities to applications
developers, not available otherwise. In this talk, I will discuss why placing computation functions at the extreme edge of our network
infrastructure, i.e., in wireless Access Points and home set-top boxes, is particularly beneficial for a large class of emerging applications.
I will discuss a specific approach, called ParaDrop, to implement such edge computing functionalities, and use examples from different
domains -- smarter homes, sustainability, and intelligent transportation -- to illustrate the new opportunities around this concept.