On using micro-clouds to deliver the fog

IEEE Internet Computing

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 8-15

  Elkhatib, Yehia ^a   Porter, Barry ^a   Ribeiro, Heverson B ^b   Zhani, Mohamed Faten ^c   Qadir, Junaid ^d   Riviere, Etienne ^c  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL   (Switzerland)

^c ÉCOLE DE TECHNOLOGIE SUPÉRIEURE   (Canada)

^d INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

cloud computing; distributed systems; fog computing; Internet of Things; Internet Web technologies; micro clouds

Indexed keywords

CLOUD COMPUTING; FOG; INTERNET OF THINGS;

COST-EFFICIENT; DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 85015237795     PISSN: 10897801     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MIC.2017.35     Document Type: Article

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