Challenges and Opportunities in Internet of Things and Cloud-Fog-Edge Computing
A special issue of Electronics (ISSN 2079-9292). This special issue belongs to the section "Computer Science & Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 September 2024) | Viewed by 619
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Interests: multimodal systems; sensor fusion; big data analytics; Internet of Things; computer vision; pattern recognition; data mining; medical image computing
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The Internet of Things (IoT) and cloud computing have seen massive growth in recent years, with many key applications emerging. Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) play a critical role in enabling these technologies to spawn more effective applications. IoT-based systems generate a massive amount of data, which are stored and processed in the cloud. AI and ML accelerate the processing of data, allowing efficient information extraction and prompt decision making. Fog computing helps the cloud offload some of its computing and storage tasks to geo-distributed servers. Edge computing is making it possible to perform the pre-processing of data close to their source before sending them to the cloud.
The interplay between these technologies is vital for developing a rich ecosystem of smart applications. Despite their prospects, IoT, cloud, fog and edge computing are facing challenges such as scalability, interoperability, governance and security issues. For successful deployment, and scalable, reliable, secure and efficient operation of cloud-native smart applications, tremendous research efforts are required in the areas of architectural models/frameworks, service orchestration, resource management, quality of service and security/trust/identity management. Moreover, various use cases of IoT and cloud-based systems for healthcare, agriculture, Industry 4.0, smart cities, etc., should be explored.
This Special Issue seeks novel contributions related to the abovementioned issues. Solicited papers include those on the following topics, among others:
- IoT platforms and applications;
- Architectural models for IoT and cloud-based computing;
- Service-oriented frameworks and middleware;
- Virtualization, containerization and microservices;
- Resource management and quality of service;
- Security for IoT and cloud data;
- Application of blockchain in IoT and cloud-based systems;
- AI and machine learning for IoT and cloud computing;
- Federated learning on cloud platforms;
- IoT and cloud-based smart applications;
- Osmotic computing and other edge computing paradigms;
- Green cloud computing.
Dr. Salahuddin Azad
Prof. Dr. Girija Chetty
Dr. Fariza Sabrina
Dr. Shaleeza Sohail
Dr. Mohammed Kaosar
Guest Editors
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