Fog and Edge Computing

8 Data Management in Fog Computing

Tina Samizadeh Nikoui Amir Masoud Rahmani and Hooman Tabarsaied

8.1 Introduction

Fog computing plays an important role in a huge and real‐time data management system for Internet of Things (IoT). IoT is a popular topic; however, as a new one, it has its own challenges in handling the huge amount of data and providing on‐time response are some of them. The high growth rate of data generation in the IoT ecosystem is a considerable issue. It was stated that in 2012, 2500 petabytes of data were created per day [1]. In [2] it was mentioned that 25,000 records were generated per second in a health application with 30 million users. Pramanik et al. [3] outlined that by a fast growing rate, in the near future health‐related data will be in scale of zettabytes. In smart cities, the amount of data is even more, while Qin et al. [1] noted that 1 million/second records may be produced in smart cities. One exabyte of data is generated per year by US smart grid and approximately 2.4 petabytes of data are generated per month by US Library of Congress [4].

The processing time in the cloud and delay of transferring cause the latency that affects performance, and that latency is unacceptable in IoT applications like e‐Health, because late feedback about a suspicious or emergency situation may endanger someone's life.

The sensors and end devices periodically generate row data that include useless, noisy, or repetitive records, but transferring huge ...