Paper Info
Title
What the Fog? Edge Computing Revisited: Promises, Applications and Future Challenges.
Abstract
Edge computing brings computing and storage resources closer to (mobile) end users and data sources, thus bypassing expensive and slow links to distant cloud computing infrastructures. Often leveraged opportunistically, these heterogeneous resources can be used to offload data and computations, enabling upcoming demanding applications such as augmented reality and autonomous driving. Research in this direction has addressed various challenges, from architectural concerns to runtime optimizations. As of today, however, we lack a widespread availability of edge computingpartly because it remains unclear which of the promised benefits of edge computing are relevant for what types of applications. This article provides a comprehensive snapshot of the current edge computing landscape, with a focus on the application perspective. We outline the characteristics of edge computing and its postulated benefits and drawbacks. To understand the functional composition of applications, we first define common application components that are relevant w.r.t. edge computing. We then present a classification of proposed use cases and analyze them according to their expected benefits from edge computing and which components they use. Furthermore, we illustrate existing products and industry solutions that have recently surfaced and outline future research challenges.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2948399
IEEE ACCESS
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Edge computing,Cloud computing,Mobile handsets,Task analysis,Taxonomy,Industries,Hardware,Edge computing,heterogeneous networks,next generation networking mobile applications,Internet of Things,ubiquitous computing
Journal
7
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
2169-3536
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Julien Gedeon1153.31
Florian Brandherm232.40
Rolf Egert394.19
Tim Grube4197.54
Max Mühlhäuser51652252.87