Benefits of a Coordinated Fog-to-Cloud Resources Management Strategy on a Smart City Scenario
Creators
- 1. Worldsensing Group, London 9-10 Carlos Place, Mayfair, London W1K 3AT, UK
- 2. Advanced Network Architectures Lab (CRAAX), UPC, Neapolis Building, Vilanova i la Geltrú, Spain
- 3. ATOS Research & Innovation, Pere IV, Barcelona, Spain
- 4. Technische Universität of Braunschweig, Hans-Sommer St, 66, Brunswick, Germany
Description
The advent of fog computing devices as computing paradigm
enriching traditional cloud computing applications, paves the way to deploy
innovative services, typically not completely appropriate and well supported by
cloud computing technology. For example, fog computing is highly suitable for
services requiring high constraints on delay, such as dependable services in the
e-health arena or tracking strategies in manufacturing processes. Recently, some
initiatives have focussed on putting together fog and cloud computing to make
the best out of utilizing both, such as the reference architecture by the OpenFog
consortium or the Fog-to-Cloud (F2C) concept. However, such a scenario
requires a novel management strategy taking over the foreseen specific
demands. In this paper, we argue the benefits of a F2C architecture on a particular
application to be deployed on a smart city or smart environment scenario.