Assessment of the Suitability of Fog Computing in the Context of Internet of Things

• Published in: IEEE transactions on cloud computing Vol. 6; no. 1; pp. 46 - 59
• Main Authors: Sarkar, Subhadeep, Chatterjee, Subarna, Misra, Sudip
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE Computer Society 01.01.2018
• Subjects: carbon-dioxide emission; Cloud computing; Computational modeling; Computer architecture; Context; Fog computing; Internet of things (IoT); Logic gates; Performance evaluation; power consumption; Real-time systems; service latency

This work performs a rigorous, comparative analysis of the fog computing paradigm and the conventional cloud computing paradigm in the context of the Internet of Things (IoT), by mathematically formulating the parameters and characteristics of fog computing-one of the first attempts of its kind. Wit...