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The surge in Internet of Things (IoT) devices and data generation highlights the limitations of traditional cloud computing in meeting demands for immediacy, Quality of Service, and location-aware services. Fog computing emerges as a…

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Industry 4.0 becomes possible through the convergence between Operational and Information Technologies. All the requirements to realize the convergence is integrated on the Fog Platform. Fog Platform is introduced between the cloud server…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-06-27 Jia Qian , Sayantan Sengupta , Lars Kai Hansen

Fog computing extends cloud computing technology to the edge of the infrastructure to let IoT applications access objects' data with reduced latency, location awareness and dynamic computation. By displacing workloads from the central cloud…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-10-11 Francescomaria Faticanti , Francesco De Pellegrini , Domenico Siracusa , Daniele Santoro , Silvio Cretti

The Internet of Things (IoT) requires a new processing paradigm that inherits the scalability of the cloud while minimizing network latency using resources closer to the network edge. Building up such flexibility within the edge-to-cloud…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-04-26 Zeinab Nezami , Kamran Zamanifar , Karim Djemame , Evangelos Pournaras

Data-intensive applications are growing at an increasing rate and there is a growing need to solve scalability and high-performance issues in them. By the advent of Cloud computing paradigm, it became possible to harness remote resources to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-06-27 Shreshth Tuli , Nipam Basumatary , Rajkumar Buyya

Intelligent vehicular systems and smart city applications are the fastest growing Internet of things (IoT) implementations at a compound annual growth rate of 30%. In view of the recent advances in IoT devices and the emerging new breed of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-10-21 Almuthanna Nassar , Yasin Yilmaz

Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) has emerged as a powerful solution for meeting the growing demands for connectivity, reliability, low latency and operational efficiency in advanced networks. However, most research has focused on…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Haiyuan Li , Hari Madhukumar , Peizheng Li , Yuelin Liu , Yiran Teng , Yulei Wu , Ning Wang , Shuangyi Yan , Dimitra Simeonidou

The efficient deployment and fine-tuning of foundation models are pivotal in contemporary artificial intelligence. In this study, we present a groundbreaking paradigm integrating Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) with foundation models,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Wenhan Yu , Terence Jie Chua , Jun Zhao

The increasing complexity of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) has led to significant interest in computational offloading to external infrastructures such as edge servers, vehicular nodes, and UAVs. These dynamic and heterogeneous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Ashab Uddin , Ahmed Hamdi Sakr , Ning Zhang

Fog computing emerged as a crucial platform for the deployment of IoT applications. The complexity of such applications requires methods that handle the resource diversity and network structure of Fog devices while maximizing the service…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-05-25 Zahra Najafabadi Samani , Nishant Saurabh , Radu Prodan

Embodied agents, such as robots and virtual characters, must continuously select actions to execute tasks effectively, solving complex sequential decision-making problems. Given the difficulty of designing such controllers manually,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Pedro Santana

Fog computing extends the cloud computing paradigm by allocating substantial portions of computations and services towards the edge of a network, and is, therefore, particularly suitable for large-scale, geo-distributed, and data-intensive…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-03 Guangxia Li , Peilin Zhao , Xiao Lu , Jia Liu , Yulong Shen

In this paper, the distributed edge caching problem in fog radio access networks (F-RANs) is investigated. By considering the unknown spatio-temporal content popularity and user preference, a user request model based on hidden Markov…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-28 Liuyang Lu , Yanxiang Jiang , Mehdi Bennis , Zhiguo Ding , Fu-Chun Zheng , Xiaohu You

The advent of Cloud Computing enabled the proliferation of IoT applications for smart environments. However, the distance of these resources makes them unsuitable for delay-sensitive applications. Hence, Fog Computing has emerged to provide…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Maad Ebrahim , Abdelhakim Hafid

The Internet of Things (IoT) is transforming industries by connecting billions of devices to collect, process, and share data. However, the massive data volumes and real-time demands of IoT applications strain traditional cloud computing…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Ameneh Zarei , Mahmood Ahmadi , Farhad Mardukhi

In light of the quick proliferation of Internet of things (IoT) devices and applications, fog radio access network (Fog-RAN) has been recently proposed for fifth generation (5G) wireless communications to assure the requirements of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-01-17 Almuthanna T. Nassar , Yasin Yilmaz

With the continuous growth of mobile data and the unprecedented demand for computing power, resource-constrained edge devices cannot effectively meet the requirements of Internet of Things (IoT) applications and Deep Neural Network (DNN)…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-09-02 Guanjin Qu , Huaming Wu

Fog computing is an emerging paradigm that aims to meet the increasing computation demands arising from the billions of devices connected to the Internet. Offloading services of an application from the Cloud to the edge of the network can…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-01-28 Nan Wang , Blesson Varghese

In this paper, we propose a load balancing algorithm based on Reinforcement Learning (RL) to optimize the performance of Fog Computing for real-time IoT applications. The algorithm aims to minimize the waiting delay of IoT workloads in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Maad Ebrahim , Abdelhakim Hafid

Fog radio access networks (F-RANs) are seen as potential architectures to support services of internet of things by leveraging edge caching and edge computing. However, current works studying resource management in F-RANs mainly consider a…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-09-18 Yaohua Sun , Mugen Peng , Shiwen Mao