Efficient and dynamic scaling of fog nodes for IoT devices

Journal of Supercomputing

Volumn 73, Issue 12, 2017, Pages 5261-5284

  El Kafhali, Said ^a   Salah, Khaled ^b  

^a HASSAN 1ST UNIVERSITY   (Morocco)

^b KHALIFA UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

Author keywords

Cloud computing; Edge computing; Fog computing; Internet of things; Performance modeling and analysis; Queuing theory

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL MODELS; CLOUD COMPUTING; COMPUTATION THEORY; DISCRETE EVENT SIMULATION; FOG; QUEUEING THEORY;

DISCRETE-EVENT SIMULATORS; EDGE COMPUTING; ISSUES AND CHALLENGES; PERFORMANCE METRICS; PERFORMANCE MODELING AND ANALYSIS; QUEUING THEORY; SYSTEM RESPONSE TIME; SYSTEM THROUGHPUT;

INTERNET OF THINGS;

EID: 85020185835     PISSN: 09208542     EISSN: 15730484     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11227-017-2083-x     Document Type: Article

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