Towards a proper service placement in combined Fog-to-Cloud (F2C) architectures

Future Generation Computer Systems

Volumn 87, Issue , 2018, Pages 1-15

  Souza, V B ^a,b   Masip Bruin, X ^b   Marin Tordera E ^b   Sanchez Lopez S ^b   Garcia, J ^b   Ren, G J ^c   Jukan, A ^d   Juan Ferrer, A ^e  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF VIÇOSA   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^c IBM ALMADEN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^d TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

^e ATOS ORIGIN   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cloud fog computing; Distributed systems; Quality of service; Resource allocation; Service placement and execution

Indexed keywords

FOG; INTERNET OF THINGS; NETWORK SECURITY; QUALITY OF SERVICE; RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

COMPUTING PARADIGM; DATA COLLECTION; DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS; GAINING MOMENTUM; INTERNET OF THING (IOT); RELEVANT FEATURES; RESEARCH COMMUNITIES; SERVICE PLACEMENTS;

FOG COMPUTING;

EID: 85046757236     PISSN: 0167739X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.future.2018.04.042     Document Type: Article

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