Fog Computing in Healthcare: A Review

The Internet of things (IoT) connects multiple devices worldwide. It is a growing field in the healthcare system such as health monitoring and tracking, fitness program, and remote medical assistance. With the advent of IoT based technologies in healthcare, it can alleviate the pressure on healthcare systems and can reduce the healthcare cost, and increase the computing and processing speed. Cloud computing was introduced to manage larger and complex healthcare data in the IoT environment. Cloud computing uses centralized cloud data centers. The central server manages the data for all the IoT devices. The integration of IoT with the cloud has some major issues such as latency, bandwidth overuse, real-time response delays, protection, and privacy. So the concept of edge computing and fog computing came into existence to overcome these issues. This paper review the IoT-Fog-based system model architectures, similar paradigm, issues, and difficulties in the area of cloud computing and finally, the performance of some of these proposed systems is assessed using the iFogSim simulator.

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