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In this paper, the fundamental problem of distribution and proactive caching of computing tasks in fog networks is studied under latency and reliability constraints. In the proposed scenario, computing can be executed either locally at the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-04-27 Mohammed S. Elbamby , Mehdi Bennis , Walid Saad

Edge computing brings several advantages, such as reduced latency, increased bandwidth, and improved locality of traffic. One aspect that is not sufficiently understood is to what extent the different communication latency experienced in…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Chiara Caiazza , Silvia Giordano , Valerio Luconi , Alessio Vecchio

Mobile edge computing is beneficial to reduce service response time and core network traffic by pushing cloud functionalities to network edge. Equipped with storage and computation capacities, edge nodes can cache services of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-02-05 Xiao Ma , Ao Zhou , Shan Zhang , Shangguang Wang

We consider a hierarchical edge-cloud architecture in which services are provided to mobile users as chains of virtual network functions. Each service has specific computation requirements and target delay performance, which require placing…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-02-21 Itamar Cohen , Carla Fabiana Chiasserini , Paolo Giaccone , Gabriel Scalosub

As we move from 5G to 6G, edge computing is one of the concepts that needs revisiting. Its core idea is still intriguing: instead of sending all data and tasks from an end user's device to the cloud, possibly covering thousands of…

-Information Technology (IT) shaped the success of organizations, giving them a solid foundation that increases both their level of efficiency as well as productivity. The computing industry is witnessing a paradigm shift in the way…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2012-09-28 Heru Susanto , Mohammad Nabil Almunawar , Chen Chin Kang

Edge computing operates between the cloud and end users and strives to provide low-latency computing services for simultaneous users. Redundant use of multiple edge nodes can reduce latency, as edge systems often operate in uncertain…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Pei Peng , Emina Soljanin

The use of Deep Learning and Machine Learning is becoming pervasive day by day which is opening doors to new opportunities in every aspect of technology. Its application Ranges from Health-care to Self-driving Cars, Home Automation to…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-09-03 Hamza Ali Imran , Usama Mujahid , Saad Wazir , Usama Latif , Kiran Mehmood

The history behind the development of cloud computing is more than several decades of technological progress in the fields of virtualization, distributed systems, and high-speed networking, but its current application is much broader than…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Deepa Gurung , S M Zia Ur Rashid , Zain ul Abdeen , Suman Rath

Nowadays a wide range of applications is constrained by low-latency requirements that cloud infrastructures cannot meet. Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) has been proposed as the reference architecture for executing applications closer to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Luciano Baresi , Davide Yi Xian Hu , Giovanni Quattrocchi , Luca Terracciano

The emerging edge-hub-cloud paradigm has enabled the development of innovative latency-critical cyber-physical applications in the edge-cloud continuum. However, this paradigm poses multiple challenges due to the heterogeneity of the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Andreas Kouloumpris , Georgios L. Stavrinides , Maria K. Michael , Theocharis Theocharides

We analyze a recently published dataset of 396 real-world cloud architectures deployed on AWS, from companies belonging to a wide range of industries. From this dataset, we identify those architectures that contain HPC or edge components…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Steven Santillan , Cristina L. Abad

Cloud computing is an emerging concept combining many fields of computing. The foundation of cloud computing is the delivery of services, software and processing capacity over the Internet, reducing cost, increasing storage, automating…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2011-07-26 Dejan Kovachev , Yiwei Cao , Ralf Klamma

Computational offloading is a promising approach for overcoming resource constraints on client devices by moving some or all of an application's computations to remote servers. With the advent of specialized hardware accelerators, client…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Nathan Ng , David Irwin , Ananthram Swami , Don Towsley , Prashant Shenoy

The evolution of smart cities demands scalable, secure, and energy-efficient architectures for real-time data processing. With the number of IoT devices expected to exceed 40 billion by 2030, traditional cloud-based systems are increasingly…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Debasish Jana , Pinakpani Pal , Pawan Kumar

Cloud computing has achieved an unbelievable adoption response rate but still its infancy stage is not over. It is an emerging paradigm and amazingly gaining popularity. The size of the market shared of the applications provided by cloud…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2013-04-12 Sultan Ullah , Zheng Xuefeng , Zhou Feng , Zhao Haichun

Fog computing is an emerging computing paradigm that uses processing and storage capabilities located at the edge, in the cloud, and possibly in between. Testing and benchmarking fog applications, however, is hard since runtime…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-05-12 Jonathan Hasenburg , Martin Grambow , David Bermbach

In this survey, we discuss the evolution of distributed computing from the utility computing to the fog computing, various research challenges for the development of fog computing environments, the current status on fog computing research…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-04-13 Shubha Brata Nath , Harshit Gupta , Sandip Chakraborty , Soumya K Ghosh

With the emergence of industrial IoT and cloud computing, and the advent of 5G and edge clouds, there are ambitious expectations on elasticity, economies of scale, and fast time to market for demanding use cases in the next generation of…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-06-19 Per Skarin , William Tärneberg , Karl-Erik Årzen , Maria Kihl

Distributed fog and edge applications communicate over unreliable networks and are subject to high communication delays. This makes using existing distributed coordination technologies from cloud applications infeasible, as they are built…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-03-16 Tobias Pfandzelter , Trever Schirmer , David Bermbach