CSEE Seminar - Fog Computing

5G services including the Internet of Things, Artificial Intelligence and Virtual/Augmented Reality are driving the need for extremely fast and fine grained service provisioning.

To meet these needs, it is critical to enable efficient and elastic computation and networking fabrics, that can be rapidly reconfigured to meet the computation and communication tasks at hand.

Cloud Computing enables flexible provisioning of resources; however, it lacks the distribution of said resources near the end-user. On the other hand, Content Distribution Networks (CDN) brings resources to the edge, but they lack the ability to offer elastic provisioning. Fog Computing emerged as an intertwine between Cloud Computing and Content Distribution Networks (CDN) to meet the 5G requirements; enabling elastic provisioning of heterogenous and distributed resources at the true edge, next to the end-user.

This seminar will introduce the principles of Fog Computing, outlining the inherited characteristics from CDNs and highlighting the architectural challenges caused by the underlying network protocols. A novel research work will then be presented to address these limitations; thus allowing a better support (and faster adoption) of Fog Computing.