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Towards a seamless coordination of cloud and fog
Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing
  • Zakaria Maamar, Zayed University
  • Emir Ugljanin, State University of Novi Pazar Novi
  • Thar Baker, Liverpool John Moores University
  • Mohammed Al Khafajiy, Liverpool John Moores University
  • Noura Faci, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1
  • Vanilson Burégio, Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco
Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Publication Date
1-1-2019
Abstract

© 2019 Association for Computing Machinery. With the increasing popularity of the Internet-of-Things (IoT), organizations are revisiting their practices as well as adopting new ones so they can deal with an ever-growing amount of sensed and actuated data that IoT-compliant things generate. Some of these practices are about the use of cloud and/or fog computing. The former promotes “anything-as-a-service” and the latter promotes “process data next to where it is located”. Generally presented as competing models, this paper discusses how cloud and fog could work hand-in-hand through a seamless coordination of their respective “duties”. This coordination stresses out the importance of defining where the data of things should be sent (either cloud, fog, or cloud&fog concurrently) and in what order (either cloud then fog, fog then cloud, or fog&cloud concurrently). Applications' concerns with data such as latency, sensitivity, and freshness dictate both the appropriate recipients and the appropriate orders. For validation purposes, a healthcare-driven IoT application along with an in-house testbed, that features real sensors and fog and cloud platforms, have permitted to carry out different experiments that demonstrate the technical feasibility of the coordination model.

ISBN
9781450359337
Publisher
Association for Computing Machinery
Keywords
  • Cloud,
  • Coordination,
  • Fog,
  • Healthcare,
  • Internet-of-Things
Scopus ID
85065667383
Indexed in Scopus
Yes
Open Access
No
https://doi.org/10.1145/3297280.3297477
Citation Information
Zakaria Maamar, Emir Ugljanin, Thar Baker, Mohammed Al Khafajiy, et al.. "Towards a seamless coordination of cloud and fog" Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing Vol. Part F147772 (2019) p. 2008 - 2015
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/zakaria-maamar/190/