The extended cloud: Review and analysis of mobile edge computing and fog from a security and resilience perspective

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications

Volumn 35, Issue 11, 2017, Pages 2586-2595

  Shirazi, Syed Noorulhassan ^a   Gouglidis, Antonios ^a   Farshad, Arsham ^a   Hutchison, David ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cloud computing; Cloud resilience; Cloud security; Edge computing; Fog computing; Mobile edge computing

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS; CLOUD COMPUTING; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; FOG; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE;

BIOLOGICAL SYSTEM MODELING; CLOUD SECURITIES; COMPUTATIONAL MODEL; EDGE COMPUTING; MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS; RESILIENCE; SECURITY;

MOBILE CLOUD COMPUTING;

EID: 85031824407     PISSN: 07338716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSAC.2017.2760478     Document Type: Review

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