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Internet of Things (IoT) aims to bring every object (e.g. smart cameras, wearable, environmental sensors, home appliances, and vehicles) online, hence generating massive amounts of data that can overwhelm storage systems and data analytics applications. Cloud computing offers services at the infrastructure level that can scale to IoT storage and processing requirements. However, there are applications such as health monitoring and emergency response that require low latency, and delay caused by transferring data to the cloud and then back to the application can seriously impact their performances. To overcome this limitation, Fog computing paradigm has been proposed, where cloud services are extended to the edge of the network to decrease the latency and network congestion. To realize the full potential of Fog and IoT paradigms for real-time analytics, several challenges need to be addressed. The first and most critical problem is designing resource management techniques that determine which modules of analytics applications are pushed to each edge device to minimize the latency and maximize the throughput. To this end, we need a evaluation platform that enables the quantification of performance of resource management policies on an IoT or Fog computing infrastructure in a repeatable manner. In this paper we propose a simulator, called iFogSim, to model IoT and Fog environments and measure the impact of resource management techniques in terms of latency, network congestion, energy consumption, and cost. We describe two case studies to demonstrate modeling of an IoT environment and comparison of resource management policies. Moreover, scalability of the simulation toolkit in terms of RAM consumption and execution time is verified under different circumstances.

Introduction . At present, the concepts of fog and edge computing are used in a wide range of applications of various kinds. One of the key problems in the organization of computing in groups of mobile devices that make up the edge/fog layer is the mission assurance based on battery power availability. In this context, a lot of developments aimed at energy saving of device systems have been presented to date. However, one important aspect remains beyond the consideration of the problem of resource saving, namely, the issue of saving the residual resource of a computing device. The aim of this research is to formalize the workload distribution problem as two-criteria optimization problem, and to develop the basic solution technique. Materials and Methods . Within the framework of this article, an approach to resource saving is proposed. It is based on the evaluation of two device criteria: battery life and residual resource of a computing device. The residual resource of a computing device can be estimated using the probability of failure-free operation of the device, or as the reciprocal of the failure rate, taking into account that the exponential law of failure distribution is used in the simulation. From this, a model of the problem of two-criteria optimization is formulated, taking into account the dynamics of the network topology in the process of performing a user mission. The topology dynamics is reflected in the model as a sequence of topologies, each of which corresponds to a certain period of time of the system operation. Results . На основе предложенной модели задачи двухкритериальной оптимизации предложен метод экономии ресурсов в граничном и туманном слоях сети. Он отражал специфику динамических слоев сети, а также учитывал важность критериев оценки потребления ресурсов устройства. Проведен эксперимент по оценке влияния способа распределения задач по сетевому кластеру на вероятность безотказной работы устройств и средний остаточный ресурс. Обсуждение и выводы . Проведенный эксперимент продемонстрировал целесообразность использования разработанного метода, так как распределение задач по исполняющим устройствам оказывало существенное влияние (до 25 % по результатам эксперимента) на средний остаточный ресурс вычислительного устройства.

The Internet of Things offers massive societal and economic opportunities while at the same time significant challenges, not least the delivery and management of the technical infrastructure underpinning it, the deluge of data generated from it, ensuring privacy and security, and capturing value from it. This Open Access Pivot explores these challenges, presenting the state of the art and future directions for research but also frameworks for making sense of this complex area. This book provides a variety of perspectives on how technology innovations such as fog, edge and dew computing, 5G networks, and distributed intelligence are making us rethink conventional cloud computing to support the Internet of Things. Much of this book focuses on technical aspects of the Internet of Things, however, clear methodologies for mapping the business value of the Internet of Things are still missing. We provide a value mapping framework for the Internet of Things to address this gap. While there is much hype about the Internet of Things, we have yet to reach the tipping point. As such, this book provides a timely entrée for higher education educators, researchers and students, industry and policy makers on the technologies that promise to reshape how society interacts and operates.

For various reasons, the cloud computing paradigm is unable to meet certain requirements (e.g. low latency and jitter, context awareness, mobility support) that are crucial for several applications (e.g. vehicular networks, augmented reality). To fulfil these requirements, various paradigms, such as fog computing, mobile edge computing, and mobile cloud computing, have emerged in recent years. While these edge paradigms share several features, most of the existing research is compartmentalised; no synergies have been explored. This is especially true in the field of security, where most analyses focus only on one edge paradigm, while ignoring the others. The main goal of this study is to holistically analyse the security threats, challenges, and mechanisms inherent in all edge paradigms, while highlighting potential synergies and venues of collaboration. In our results, we will show that all edge paradigms should consider the advances in other paradigms.

Cloud computing is a technology that was developed a decade ago to provide uninterrupted, scalable services to users and organizations. Cloud computing has also become an attractive feature for mobile users due to the limited features of mobile devices. The combination of cloud technologies with mobile technologies resulted in a new area of computing called mobile cloud computing. This combined technology is used to augment the resources existing in Smart devices. In recent times, Fog computing, Edge computing, and Clone Cloud computing techniques have become the latest trends after mobile cloud computing, which have all been developed to address the limitations in cloud computing. This paper reviews these recent technologies in detail and provides a comparative study of them. It also addresses the differences in these technologies and how each of them is effective for organizations and developers.