A Performance Exploration of Architectural Options for a Middleware for Decentralised Lightweight Edge Cloud Architectures Topics: Architecture for secure and interactive IoT; Intelligent Systems for IoT and Services Computing ; Internet of Things; IoT Services and Applications; Middleware and Agents for IoT and Big Data, Grid and Cluster Computing; Performance Evaluation and Modeling ; SOA based approaches to IoT BD; Software Architecture and Middleware ; Software Engineering Approaches, including Formal Methods, Agile Methods and Theoretical Algorithms for IoT and Big Data; System Design and Architecture In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Internet of Things, Big Data and Security IoTBDS - Volume 1, 73-84, 2018 , Funchal, Madeira, Portugal