MIFaaS: A Mobile-IoT-Federation-as-a-Service Model for dynamic cooperation of IoT Cloud Providers

Future Generation Computer Systems

Volumn 70, Issue , 2017, Pages 126-137

  Farris, I ^a   Militano, L ^a   Nitti, M ^b   Atzori, L ^b   Iera, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDITERRANEA OF REGGIO CALABRIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAGLIARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Coalition formation; Fog Computing; Game theory; IoT; Mobile Cloud Federation; Mobile Edge Computing

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION THEORY; COMPUTER GAMES; GAME THEORY; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; MOBILE CLOUD COMPUTING;

COALITION FORMATION GAMES; COALITION FORMATIONS; COALITION STRUCTURE; EDGE COMPUTING; HETEROGENEOUS DEVICES; INTEGRATED ENVIRONMENT; INTERNET OF THING (IOT); MOBILE CLOUDS;

INTERNET OF THINGS;

EID: 85016560688     PISSN: 0167739X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.future.2016.06.028     Document Type: Article

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