Fog and Mobile Edge Computing
A special issue of Future Internet (ISSN 1999-5903). This special issue belongs to the section "Network Virtualization and Edge/Fog Computing".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 March 2021) | Viewed by 4621
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Fog and Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) have been defined by many as an extension of the cloud, where resources are placed at the edge of the network and therefore, close to the end user. In the past few years, the terms Fog and MEC have attracted more interest both from academia and industry due to the huge role they could play in improving different scenarios where the traditional cloud fails, especially in terms of quality of service. Many industries see the benefits of these technologies as follows: i) they are key enablers for IoT infrastructures, by providing the needed processing and storage capacities often constrained in IoT devices; ii) they allow cloud resources to be closer to data sources in order to reduce latency and increase performance; and iii) they increase security and privacy by placing security checks closer to the data sources or even on companies’ premises. The distributed nature of Fog and MEC allow companies to deploy dedicated and context-aware services, while maintaining a high level of scalability, interoperability, and efficient (de-)allocation of resources.
The aim of this Special Issue is to collect the most recent studies focusing on Fog and MEC. Our goal is to bring together researchers and experts from different IT communities, including Fog computing, Mobile Edge Computing, Cloud Computing, IoT, Big Data, etc., to share ideas, present use cases, validate results, identify challenges, and define the future directions of Fog and MEC. The potential topics for the Special Issue include, but are not limited to:
- Fog and MEC adoption strategies;
- Fog and MEC architectures evolution, scaling, adaptation;
- Fog and MEC delivery models;
- Fog and MEC Security;
- Application distribution and portability in Fog and MEC;
- Availability and resiliency in Fog and MEC;
- Fog and MEC virtualization and containers;
- Infrastructure automation for Fog and MEC.
Dr. Nabil El Ioini
Guest Editor
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