All one needs to know about fog computing and related edge computing paradigms: A complete survey

With the Internet of Things (IoT) becoming part of our daily life and our environment, we expect rapid growth in the number of connected devices. IoT is expected to connect billions of devices and humans to bring promising advantages for us. With this growth, fog computing, along with its related ed...

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Published in:Journal of systems architecture 2019-09, Vol.98, p.289-330
Main Authors: Yousefpour, Ashkan, Fung, Caleb, Nguyen, Tam, Kadiyala, Krishna, Jalali, Fatemeh, Niakanlahiji, Amirreza, Kong, Jian, Jue, Jason P.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Cloud computing
Cloudlet
Edge computing
Fog computing
Internet of things (IoT)
Mist computing
Mobile edge computing
Multi-access edge computing
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Summary:With the Internet of Things (IoT) becoming part of our daily life and our environment, we expect rapid growth in the number of connected devices. IoT is expected to connect billions of devices and humans to bring promising advantages for us. With this growth, fog computing, along with its related edge computing paradigms, such as multi-access edge computing (MEC) and cloudlet, are seen as promising solutions for handling the large volume of security-critical and time-sensitive data that is being produced by the IoT. In this paper, we first provide a tutorial on fog computing and its related computing paradigms, including their similarities and differences. Next, we provide a taxonomy of research topics in fog computing, and through a comprehensive survey, we summarize and categorize the efforts on fog computing and its related computing paradigms. Finally, we provide challenges and future directions for research in fog computing.
ISSN:1383-7621
1873-6165
DOI:10.1016/j.sysarc.2019.02.009