Optimizing the Number of Fog Nodes for Cloud-Fog-Thing Networks

IEEE Access

Volumn 6, Issue , 2018, Pages 11173-11183

  Balevi, Eren ^a   Gitlin, Richard D ^a  

^a University of South Florida   (United States)

Author keywords

average data rate; Fog networking; hierarchical networks; SINR; transmission delay

Indexed keywords

FOG;

AVERAGE DATA; COMPUTING CAPABILITY; HIERARCHICAL NETWORK; NUMERICAL RESULTS; PATH LOSS EXPONENT; SINR; TRANSMISSION DELAYS; WIRELESS CHANNEL CONDITION;

FOG COMPUTING;

EID: 85042385114     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21693536     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2018.2808598     Document Type: Article

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