Survey on fog computing: architecture, key technologies, applications and open issues

Journal of Network and Computer Applications

Volumn 98, Issue , 2017, Pages 27-42

  Hu, Pengfei ^a,b,c   Dhelim, Sahraoui ^a,b,c   Ning, Huansheng ^a,b,c   Qiu, Tie ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY BEIJING   (China)

^b Beijing Engineering Research Center for Cyberspace Data Analysis and Applications   (China)

^c Cybermatics and Cyberspace International Science and Technology Cooperation Base   (China)

^d DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Application; Architecture; Cloud computing; Edge computing; Fog computing; Internet of Things(IoT)

Indexed keywords

APPLICATIONS; ARCHITECTURE; AUGMENTED REALITY; BANDWIDTH; BRAIN COMPUTER INTERFACE; CLOUD COMPUTING; DIGITAL STORAGE; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; FOG; INTERNET OF THINGS; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; NETWORK FUNCTION VIRTUALIZATION;

BRAIN MACHINE INTERFACE; COMPUTING APPLICATIONS; EDGE COMPUTING; HIERARCHICAL ARCHITECTURES; INTERNET OF THINGS (IOT); SECURITY AND PRIVACY; SECURITY AND PRIVACY PROTECTION; SENSITIVE APPLICATION;

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE;

EID: 85029368813     PISSN: 10848045     EISSN: 10958592     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jnca.2017.09.002     Document Type: Review

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