A SYSTEMATIC LITERATURE REVIEW OF FOG COMPUTING

Fog Computing is an emerging paradigm that is deemed as the next generation of Cloud Computing. In this day and age, the proliferation of data and data nodes in the Internet of Things has posed problems for the cloud architecture. Fog computing can address those issues by providing elastic resources to end users at the edge of the network. The objective of this study is to obtain an overview of reference architectures, related applications and challenges with the fog paradigm. To this end, a systematic literature review (SLR), which offers a structured approach to better comprehend fog computing is conducted. The study reveals that there is a wide range of applications that can benefit from fog computing; nevertheless, they are not fully implemented in reality. The literature only presents conceptual architectures or proposed prototypes. In addition, the study also shows that security and privacy are among the great challenges for fog computing.

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