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Fog computing significantly enhances the efficiency of IoT applications by providing computation, storage, and networking resources at the edge of the network. In this paper, we propose a federated fog computing framework designed to…
The energy transition supports the shift towards more sustainable energy alternatives, paving towards decentralized smart grids, where the energy is generated closer to the point of use. The decentralized smart grids foresee novel…
Fog networks offer computing resources with varying capacities at different distances from end users. A Fog Node (FN) closer to the network edge may have less powerful computing resources compared to the cloud, but processing of…
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Fog computing is a promising computing paradigm for time-sensitive Internet of Things (IoT) applications. It helps to process data close to the users, in order to deliver faster processing outcomes than the Cloud; it also helps to reduce…
Fog computing has emerged as a computing paradigm aimed at addressing the issues of latency, bandwidth and privacy when mobile devices are communicating with remote cloud services. The concept is to offload compute services closer to the…
Mobile edge computing (a.k.a. fog computing) has recently emerged to enable \emph{in-situ} processing of delay-sensitive applications at the edge of mobile networks. Providing grid power supply in support of mobile edge computing, however,…
Efficient and reliable node deployment in Wireless Sensor Networks is crucial for optimizing coverage of the area, connectivity among nodes, and energy efficiency. This paper proposes a hybrid meta heuristic approach combining a Genetic…
Fog computing offers increased performance and efficiency for Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) applications through distributed data processing in nearby proximity to sensors. Given resource constraints and their contentious use in IoT…
Fog-assisted 5G Networks allow the users within the networks to execute their tasks and processes through fog nodes and cooperation among the fog nodes. As a result, the delay in task execution reduces as compared to that in case of…
As wireless services and applications become more sophisticated and require faster and higher-capacity networks, there is a need for an efficient management of the execution of increasingly complex tasks based on the requirements of each…
Going from theory to practice in fog networking raises the question of the optimum number of fog nodes that will be upgraded from the existing nodes. This paper finds the optimum number of fog nodes for a given total number of ordinary…
The deployment of edge computing infrastructure requires a careful placement of the edge servers, with an aim to improve application latencies and reduce data transfer load in opportunistic Internet of Things systems. In the edge server…
Motivated by applications such as on-device collaborative neural network inference, this work investigates edge-facilitated collaborative fog computing - in which edge-devices collaborate with each other and with the edge of the network to…
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…
Today, wearable internet-of-things (wIoT) devices continuously flood the cloud data centers at an enormous rate. This increases a demand to deploy an edge infrastructure for computing, intelligence, and storage close to the users. The…
This paper studies fog computing systems, in which cloud data centers can be supplemented by a large number of fog nodes deployed in a wide geographical area. Each node relies on harvested energy from the surrounding environment to provide…
Networked embedded systems endowed with sensing, computing, control and communication capabilities allow the development of various application scenarios and represent the building blocks of the Internet of Things (IoT) paradigm.…
The amount of data being produced at every epoch of second is increasing every moment. Various sensors, cameras and smart gadgets produce continuous data throughout its installation. Processing and analyzing raw data at a cloud server faces…
The emerging 5G paradigm will enable multi-radio smartphones to run high-rate stream applications. However, since current smartphones remain resource and battery-limited, the 5G era opens new challenges on how to actually support these…