Edge and Cloud Computing Systems and Applications

Dear Colleagues,

With the recent need for digital integration across sectors and industries, from automobile to healthcare, banking, finance, retail, agriculture and  manufacturing industries, edge and cloud computing ecosystems must be reliable and effective. Edge and cloud computing converge computation, communications, and storage services through systems and applications in a distributed manner. Hence, they open nearly unlimited research and application opportunities and raise unforeseen technological, theoretical, and societal issues and challenges that are not yet properly specified.

We are pleased to invite you to contribute your valuable work of experimental and application-oriented results to this Special Issue, which aims to disseminate recent developments in edge and cloud reliability, edge and cloud management, edge and cloud resources, edge and cloud services, as well as efficiency and security in edge and cloud systems. This Special Issue will highlight case studies and industrial applications in edge/cloud storage, edge/cloud connections, edge/cloud analytics, edge/cloud artificial intelligence, and edge/cloud processing engines.

This Special Issue aims to welcome both original research articles and reviews. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:

• Edge and cloud technologies in software systems;
• Edge and cloud technologies for the Metaverse;
• Edge and cloud application innovations;
• Edge and cloud in blockchain;
• Industry-specific edges;
• Risk analysis of edge and cloud applications;
• Trust computing in edge and cloud applications
• Quality of Service in edge and cloud applications;
• Artificial intelligence for edge and cloud applications;
• Requirements and use cases for edge and cloud applications;
• Fault tolerance and recovery in edge and cloud technologies;
• Application regulations and standards with edge and cloud technologies.

Dr. Siti Hafizah Ab Hamid
Dr. Raja Wasim Ahmad
Guest Editors

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