Fog computing: Survey of trends, architectures, requirements, and research directions

IEEE Access

Volumn 6, Issue , 2018, Pages 47980-48009

  Naha, Ranesh Kumar ^a   Garg, Saurabh ^a   Georgakopoulos, Dimitrios ^b   Jayaraman, Prem Prakash ^b   Gao, Longxiang ^c   Xiang, Yong ^c   Ranjan, Rajiv ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^b SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^c DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

fault tolerance; Fog computing; fog devices; Internet of Things (IoT); IoT application; microservices

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURE; BIG DATA; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; DIGITAL STORAGE; FAULT TOLERANCE; FOG; INTERNET OF THINGS; MULTITASKING; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SURVEYS; TAXONOMIES;

ALLOCATION AND SCHEDULING; COMPUTING ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTING ENVIRONMENTS; FUTURE RESEARCH DIRECTIONS; INTERNET OF THING (IOT); INTERNET OF THINGS (IOT); IOT APPLICATIONS; MICROSERVICES;

FOG COMPUTING;

EID: 85052713522     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21693536     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2018.2866491     Document Type: Article

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