Android-based Implementation of a Fog Computing and Networking Environment

The increasing number of devices and applications requesting external processing and storage facilities with reduced access latency has led to the introduction of edge computing solutions. Among others, Fog Computing can be considered as an edge computing solution enabling the edge devices to offer general-purpose processing and storage capabilities. Despite a huge research effort for proposing efficient Fog Computing solutions, their implementability is still under study. By resorting to the Cloud Computing service models, we propose here an Android-based proof-of-concept solution allowing to implement different Fog services in an edge scenario by using off-the-shelf end-user devices.