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The smart grid utilizes many Internet of Things (IoT) applications to support its intelligent grid monitoring and control. The requirements of the IoT applications vary due to different tasks in the smart grid. In this paper, we propose a…
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There is a continuous growth in demand for time sensitive applications which has shifted the cloud paradigm from a centralized computing architecture towards distributed heterogeneous computing platforms where resources located at the edge…
In recent years, there has been a shift in computing architectures, moving away from centralized cloud computing towards decentralized edge and fog computing. This shift is driven by factors such as the increasing volume of data generated…
Identifying the closest fog node is crucial for mobile clients to benefit from fog computing. Relying on geographical location alone us insufficient for this as it ignores real observed client access latency. In this paper, we analyze the…
Fog computing offloads latency critical application services running on the Cloud in close proximity to end-user devices onto resources located at the edge of the network. The research in this paper is motivated towards characterising and…
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Fog computing has emerged as a new paradigm in mobile network communications, aiming to equip the edge of the network with the computing and storing capabilities to deal with the huge amount of data and processing needs generated by the…
Fog computing brings the functionality of the cloud near the edge of the network with the help of fog devices/micro data centers ($mdcs$). Job scheduling in such systems is a complex problem due to the hierarchical and geo-distributed…