Fog Computing, Ecosystem, Architecture and Applications
Fog Computing is a paradigm that extends Cloud computing and services to the edge of the network. Similar to Cloud, Fog provides data, compute, storage, and application services to end-users. The distinguishing Fog characteristics are its proximity to end-users, its dense geographical distribution, and its support for mobility. Services are hosted at the network edge or even end devices such as set-top-boxes or access points. By doing so, Fog reduces service latency, and improves QoS, resulting in superior user-experience. Fog Computing supports emerging Internet of Everything (IoE) applications that demand real-time/predictable latency (industrial automation, transportation, networks of sensors and actuators). Thanks to its wide geographical distribution the Fog paradigm is well positioned for real time big data and real time analytics. Fog supports densely distributed data collection points, hence adding a fourth axis to the often mentioned Big Data dimensions (volume, variety, and velocity).
Unlike traditional data centers, Fog devices are geographically distributed over heterogeneous platforms, spanning multiple management domains. Cisco is interested in innovative proposals that facilitate service mobility across platforms, and technologies that preserve end-user and content security and privacy across domains.
Fog provides unique advantages for services across several verticals such as IT, entertainment, advertising, personal computing etc. Cisco is specially interested in proposals that focus on Fog Computing scenarios related to Internet of Everything (IoE), Sensor Networks, Data Analytics and other data intensive services to demonstrate the advantages of such a new paradigm, to evaluate the trade-offs in both experimental and production deployments and to address potential research problems for those deployments.
While Fog conceptually extends Cloud computing and leverages Cloud's underlying technologies, Fog, by definition, spans wider geographic locations than Cloud, and in a denser way. Also, Fog devices are much more heterogeneous in nature, ranging from end-user devices, access points, to edge routers and switches. To accommodate this heterogeneity, Fog services are abstracted inside a container for ease of orchestration. Example container technologies are Java Virtual Machine (JVM), and Linux containers. Proposals that investigate service mobility across Fog platforms are of particular interest. Specifically,
Fog services will be orchestrated across management domains; services will be provisioned, monitored and tracked across these domains. Proposals investigating security and privacy in the context of Fog Computing are encouraged. Specifically,
While Fog provides unique advantages for services across several verticals such as IT, entertainment, advertising, personal computing etc., Cisco is specially interested in investigating Fog advantages for Big Data services in several verticals including IoE. Specifically, innovations in compute, storage offerings for data intensive services such as the following:
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