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Title Fog Computing: Enabling the Management and Orchestration of Smart City Applications in 5G Networks
ID_Doc 39102
Authors Santos, J; Wauters, T; Volckaert, B; De Turck, F
Title Fog Computing: Enabling the Management and Orchestration of Smart City Applications in 5G Networks
Year 2018
Published Entropy, 20, 1
DOI 10.3390/e20010004
Abstract Fog computing extends the cloud computing paradigm by placing resources close to the edges of the network to deal with the upcoming growth of connected devices. Smart city applications, such as health monitoring and predictive maintenance, will introduce a new set of stringent requirements, such as low latency, since resources can be requested on-demand simultaneously by multiple devices at different locations. It is then necessary to adapt existing network technologies to future needs and design new architectural concepts to help meet these strict requirements. This article proposes a fog computing framework enabling autonomous management and orchestration functionalities in 5G-enabled smart cities. Our approach follows the guidelines of the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) NFV MANO architecture extending it with additional software components. The contribution of our work is its fully-integrated fog node management system alongside the foreseen application layer Peer-to-Peer (P2P) fog protocol based on the Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) routing protocol for the exchange of application service provisioning information between fog nodes. Evaluations of an anomaly detection use case based on an air monitoring application are presented. Our results show that the proposed framework achieves a substantial reduction in network bandwidth usage and in latency when compared to centralized cloud solutions.
Author Keywords fog computing; 5G; IoT; smart cities; management and orchestration
Index Keywords Index Keywords
Document Type Other
Open Access Open Access
Source Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED)
EID WOS:000424876200004
WoS Category Physics, Multidisciplinary
Research Area Physics
PDF https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/20/1/4/pdf?version=1514343337
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