Assessment of the Suitability of Fog Computing in the Context of Internet of Things

IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2018, Pages 46-59

  Sarkar, Subhadeep ^a   Chatterjee, Subarna ^a   Misra, Sudip ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Carbon dioxide emission; Cloud computing; Fog computing; Internet of things (IoT); Power consumption; Service latency

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; CLOUD COMPUTING; COMPUTER NETWORK PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; ELECTRIC POWER UTILIZATION; FOG; GLOBAL WARMING; GREEN COMPUTING; INFORMATION SERVICES; INTERNET OF THINGS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

CARBON DIOXIDE EMISSIONS; CLOUD DATA CENTERS; COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS; COMPUTING PARADIGM; INTERNET OF THING (IOT); INTERNET OF THINGS (IOT); SENSITIVE APPLICATION; SERVICE LATENCY;

FOG COMPUTING;

EID: 85036660454     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21687161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCC.2015.2485206     Document Type: Article

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