Chapter 7: Fog/edge computing technology and big data system with IoT

Zhengyu Zhua; Ming Zengb; Wanming Haoa    aSchool of Information Engineering, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, ChinabDepartment of Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering, Université Laval, Quebec, QC, Canada

Abstract

Over time, big data is snowballing, and cloud storage and other similar services around the world are under pressure from a huge number of complex data-processing requests. Data service centers exist far from the data-intensive applications to which they are connected, and they struggle to complete their requests. The emergence of edge computing alleviates the load brought by big data to a certain extent. Edge computing plays a pivotal role and is favored ...

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