System modelling and performance evaluation of a three-tier Cloud of Things

Future Generation Computer Systems

Volumn 70, Issue , 2017, Pages 104-125

  Li, Wei ^a   Santos, Igor ^b   Delicato, Flavia C ^b   Pires, Paulo F ^b   Pirmez, Luci ^b   Wei, Wei ^c   Song, Houbing ^d   Zomaya, Albert ^a   Khan, Samee ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^c XI'AN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^d West Virginia University   (United States)

^e North Dakota State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Cloud of Things; Fog computing; Internet of Things; Performance evaluation; System modelling

Indexed keywords

ENERGY UTILIZATION; FOG; INTERNET OF THINGS;

COMPUTATIONAL RESOURCES; DISTRIBUTED APPLICATIONS; INTERNET OF THING (IOT); PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; SYSTEM MODELLING; THREE-TIER SYSTEMS; TWO TIERS;

FOG COMPUTING;

EID: 84999040223     PISSN: 0167739X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.future.2016.06.019     Document Type: Article

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