Cloud, Fog and Edge Computing in the IoT and Industry Systems

Dear Colleagues,

Over the last few decades, the IoT and industry systems have become increasingly likely to adopt cloud, fog, and edge computing solutions to manage, process and store their data. This is a rather unavoidable need as transformation and innovation in almost all types of modern industries and IoT applications require latency-sensitive processing in real time and in a large scale, nearby or massive storage, reliability, security, and high data rate. By enabling each of these technologies or their combination, new opportunities and prospects arise for industry, market, and businesses. However, these distributed computing paradigms necessitate a comprehensive multiactor and multilevel approach in order to deal with the challenges of their integration in real-world IoT and industry applications. In the context of a wide-scale application, and from the perspective of complex networking, these paradigms have become a blueprint capable of being translated into a feasible, technologically practicable, and industry-viable solution.

This Special Issue is dedicated to bringing together advances, discussing common and interoperability problems, presenting novel solutions, and gathering efforts and recent developments in the aforementioned fields. Its goal is to explore the different visions of academia and industry on solutions that integrate these technologies in various scenarios and for different stakeholders.

Dr. Spiridoula V. Margariti
Dr. Vassilios V. Dimakopoulos
Guest Editors

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