Title: A survey on Fog Computing and its research challenges

Authors: José Dos Santos Machado; Edward David Moreno; Admilson De Ribamar Lima Ribeiro

Addresses: Computer Department, Federal University of Sergipe, São Cristóvão, Brazil ' Computer Department, Federal University of Sergipe, São Cristóvão, Brazil ' Computer Department, Federal University of Sergipe, São Cristóvão, Brazil

Abstract: This paper reviews the new paradigm of distributed computing, which is Fog Computing, and it presents its concept, characteristics and areas of performance. It performs a literature review on the problem of its implementation and analyses its research challenges such as: security issues; operational issues and their standardisation. We show and discuss that many questions need to be researched in academia so that their implementation will become a reality, but it became clear that their adherence is inevitable for the internet of the future.

Keywords: Fog Computing; cloud computing; IoT; internet of things; distributed computing; cloud integration to IoT; research challenges.

DOI: 10.1504/IJGUC.2020.108446

International Journal of Grid and Utility Computing, 2020 Vol.11 No.4, pp.486 - 495

Received: 23 Nov 2017
Accepted: 05 Feb 2018
Published online: 14 Jul 2020 *

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