Fog Computing for Intelligent Cloud IoT Systems

1Fog Computing: Architecture and Application

Soumen Swarnakar

Department of Information Technology, Netaji Subhash Engineering College, Kolkata, India

Abstract

Nowadays, owing to the advancement of electronics and telecommunications and the increasing usage of the Internet, various powerful devices with networking capabilities are attracting industries to accept this technology for the development of their daily business to increase their productivity. Not only the industrial sector but also other sectors, such as public services and assisted living amenities have a huge demand for Information and Communication Technology growth. Therefore, there is a demand for a new model that enables objects to connect to global network. This model is known as the IoT. The use of the IoT has grown according to the demands of the current era. IoT combinations with clouds have brought different benefits to devices that operate on various platforms. Applications based on the IoT generate enormous amounts of data from different sensors. These data were used to make different decisions.

It is true that cloud computing has some issues in data transmission owing to the limitations of networks and infrastructure, which immensely decrease the performance of cloud computing. Therefore, the fog computing model was introduced to act in the middle between cloud computing and IoT. Fog is an extended version of cloud computing that can provide computing facilities at the edge of the network, and it allows ...