Fog Computing: Architectural Framework, Applications and Open Research

Abstract

The present decade has seen a wide implementation of Internet of Things (IoT) innovation in different application areas, and its extensive role will keep on increasing in the future. With the fast development of Internet of Things (IoT) applications, the cloud computing worldview faces a few challenges i.e. latency, network failure, least performance. For managing countless gadgets and the huge information produced by them, a proficient computing technique is required. Thus, Fog computing has been proposed as an efficient solution to bring the cloud nearer to the IoT devices and to give productive and secure services to the numerous IoT clients. It is a model extending cloud services to the edge of the network, and thus reducing the latency and improving the performance in a dynamic realtime environment. The fog computing supply the services with good response time and high quality as opposed to cloud. This paper reviews the architecture of fog computing model, its characteristics, applications and its related works in Fog and IoT technology.