Towards a seamless coordination of cloud and fog

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Source of Publication

Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing

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

Volume

Part F147772

First Page

2008

Last Page

2015

Disciplines

Computer Sciences | Medicine and Health Sciences

Keywords

Cloud, Coordination, Fog, Healthcare, Internet-of-Things

Scopus ID

85065667383

Indexed in Scopus

yes

Open Access

no

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