Mobile Fog/Cloud Computing: Open Challenges

Dear Colleagues,

The advent of the so-called Industry 4.0 has fostered new business opportunities, but it also poses new and challenging requirements, such as low latency communications and highly reliable systems. IIoT (Industrial Internet of Things) communications would likely exploit new wireless technologies (5G), but then would also require architectures that appropriately support them. Besides pure communication requirements, the use of fog and cloud computing looms as a potential solution to dynamically allocate computational load as required by the various applications that will keep. In this sense, the combination of fog and cloud computing represents a potential solution, since it can dynamically allocate the workload depending on the specific needs of each application. Several challenges need to be faced, such as e2e connectivity considering multiple source/destinations, performance modeling, virtualization techniques, workload allocation, security, etc.

In this Special Issue, we seek submissions of high-quality technical papers reporting original research that has not been previously published, and is not currently submitted for consideration elsewhere, on topics including, but not limited to:

• Multi cloud/fog architectures
• Security for mobile fog/cloud computing
• Connectivity for mobile fog/cloud computing
• Modeling of mobile fog/cloud computing
• Performance evaluation of mobile fog/cloud computing
• Experimental testbeds and plarforms
• Use of virtualization tecniques for mobile fog/cloud computing
• IIoT over mobile fog/cloud computing
• Advanced analytics on fog/cloud architectures
• Artificial Intelligence in fog/cloud architectures

Dr. Ramón Agüero
Dr. Josu Bilbao
Guest Editors

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