A View of Fog Computing from Networking Perspective

With smart devices, particular smartphones, becoming our everyday companions, the ubiquitous mobile Internet and computing applications pervade people's daily lives. With the surge demand on high-quality mobile services at anywhere, how to address the ubiquitous user demand and accommodate the explosive growth of mobile traffics is the key issue of the next generation mobile networks. The Fog computing is a promising solution towards this goal. Fog computing extends cloud computing by providing virtualized resources and engaged location-based services to the edge of the mobile networks so as to better serve mobile traffics. Therefore, Fog computing is a lubricant of the combination of cloud computing and mobile applications. In this article, we outline the main features of Fog computing and describe its concept, architecture and design goals. Lastly, we discuss some of the future research issues from the networking perspective.

• Publication year

  2016

• Venue

  arXiv.org

• Publication date

  2016-02-03

• Fields of study

  Computer Science, Engineering, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  arXiv 1602.01509
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar

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