Security Designs for the Cloud, IoT, and Social Networking

CHAPTER 14ADVANCEMENTS AND APPLICATIONS IN FOG COMPUTING

SUMIT BANSAL¹, MAYANK AGGARWAL², HIMANSHU AGGARWAL¹

¹Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Punjabi University, Patiala, India

²Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Gurukul Kangri University, Haridwar, India

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Abstract

Cloud computing is the technology for on-demand distribution of services, like computation power, storage, applications, etc., by means of the Internet of Things (IoT), which is a set of interconnected things via the internet that has the ability to assess, act and communicate with the world. Fog computing is the modified version of the existing structure which promotes the data handling at the edges of the network instead of handling everything at the cloud level. It thereby reduces the large amount of data sent to the cloud by processing the collected data at fog devices. Fog computing is a limited researched area with wide applicability. For the application of fog computing in the existing infrastructure, edge devices are used to convert cloud computing into fog computing. An edge device is a smart self-controlled device with high computability which could be managed by the cloud decision makers. A few examples of edge devices are smart plugs, smart refrigerators, Libelium devices, smartphones, etc. For latency reduction via fog computing, actuators are used. Actuators are devices which can complete works mechanically ...