Edge computing technologies for Internet of Things: a primer

Digital Communications and Networks

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2018, Pages 77-86

  Ai, Yuan ^a   Peng, Mugen ^a   Zhang, Kecheng ^a  

^a BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

Author keywords

Cloudlets; Fog computing; Internet of Things (IoT); Mobile edge computing

Indexed keywords

EID: 85045838083     PISSN: 24685925     EISSN: 23528648     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dcan.2017.07.001     Document Type: Article

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