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Abstract --Internet of Things (IoT) brings more than an the term “fog” is used interchangeably with the term
explosive proliferation of endpoints. Despite the broad “edge,” although fog is broader than the typical notion
utilization of cloud computing, some applications and of edge. The relevance of fog/edge is rooted in both
services still cannot benefit from this popular computing the inadequacy of the traditional cloud and the
paradigm due to inherent problems of cloud computing such
as unacceptable latency, lack of mobility support and
emergence of new opportunities for the Internet of
location-awareness. It is disruptive in several ways. In this Things, 5G and embedded artificial intelligence.
paper we examine those disruptions, and propose a
hierarchical distributed architecture that extends from the Fog Computing enables a new breed of applications and
edge of the network to the core nicknamed Fog Computing services, and that there is a fruitful interplay between the
Fog is an emergent architecture for computing, storage, Cloud and the Fog, particularly when it comes to data
control, and networking that distributes these services closer management and analytics. Fog Computing extends the
to end users along the cloud-to-things continuum. Fog Cloud Computing paradigm to the edge of the network.
Computing extends the Cloud Computing paradigm to the While Fog and Cloud use the same resources (networking,
edge of the network, thus enabling a new breed of compute, and storage), and share many of the same
applications and services. mechanisms and attributes.
Index Terms—Edge computing, edge networking, edge The Internet of things (IoT) will be the Internet of future, as
storage, fog, fog computing, fog control, fog networking, we have seen a huge increase in wearable technology, smart
fog storage, Internet of Things (IoT). grid, smart home/city, smart connected vehicles.
The Fog is an architecture that distributes computation, These devices, called fog nodes, can be deployed anywhere
communication, control and storage closer to the end with a network connection: on a factory floor, on top of a
power pole,
users along the cloud-to-things continuum. Sometimes
alongside a railway track, in a vehicle, or on an oil rig. Any
device with computing, storage, and network connectivity
can be a fog node. Examples include industrial controllers,
switches, routers, embedded servers, and video surveillance
cameras.
between the sensor and the control node stay within a few
milliseconds . Many other IoT applications, such as vehicle-
to-vehicle communications, vehicle-to-roadside
communications, drone flight control applications, virtual
reality applications, gaming applications, and real-time
financial trading applications, may require latencies below a
few tens of milliseconds. These requirements fall far outside
what mainstream cloud services can achieve.
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