Title: An application study case tradeoff between throughput and latency on fog-cloud cooperation

Authors: Mario A.R. Dantas; Paulo Eduardo Bogoni; Paulo José De Freitas Filho

Addresses: Department of Computer Science (DCC), Federal University of Juiz de For a (UFJF), Juiz de Fora, MG, Brazil ' Neoway, Florianopolis, SC, Brazil ' Department of Informatics and Statistics (INE), Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC), Florianópolis, SC, Brazil

Abstract: Nowadays, several research works are targeting fog-cloud environments cooperation in the organisations. Examples of well-known challenges are workload offloading, shared services, power consumption, security and communication delays. The communication subject is an essential metric to be observed in this cooperation. Bandwidth, throughput and latency are important parameters that affect the fog-cloud cooperation and are frequently misunderstood. In this paper, it is presented a research work, in which we took in consideration a real information system (IS) application which could execute under a cooperation of a fog-cloud configuration. Therefore, we conceived a case study to investigate specially the tradeoff between the throughput and latency parameters and provide more accurate idea of an application requirements in a fog-cloud cooperation scenario.

Keywords: fog-cloud cooperation; distributed information system applications; throughtput and latency; storage; processing.

DOI: 10.1504/IJNVO.2020.109321

International Journal of Networking and Virtual Organisations, 2020 Vol.23 No.3, pp.247 - 260

Received: 24 Sep 2018
Accepted: 03 May 2019
Published online: 03 Sep 2020 *

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