Fog Computing in the Internet of Things

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-vi

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2. Introduction on Fog Computing

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Fog Computing Fundamentals in the Internet-of-Things

      • Behailu Negash, Amir M. Rahmani, Pasi Liljeberg, Axel Jantsch

      Pages 3-13

3. Management at the Fog Layer

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 15-15

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   2. IoT Resource Estimation Challenges and Modeling in Fog

      • Mohammad Aazam, Marc St-Hilaire, Chung-Horng Lung, Ioannis Lambadaris, Eui-Nam Huh

      Pages 17-31

   3. Tackling IoT Ultra Large Scale Systems: Fog Computing in Support of Hierarchical Emergent Behaviors

      • Damian Roca, Rodolfo Milito, Mario Nemirovsky, Mateo Valero

      Pages 33-48

4. Services of the Fog Layer

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 49-49

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   2. The Present and Future of Privacy-Preserving Computation in Fog Computing

      • Patrícia R. Sousa, Luís Antunes, Rolando Martins

      Pages 51-69

   3. Self-Aware Fog Computing in Private and Secure Spheres

      • Kalle Tammemäe, Axel Jantsch, Alar Kuusik, Jürgo-Sören Preden, Enn Õunapuu

      Pages 71-99

   4. Urban IoT Edge Analytics

      • Aakanksha Chowdhery, Marco Levorato, Igor Burago, Sabur Baidya

      Pages 101-120

5. Application Use-Cases

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 121-121

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   2. Control-as-a-Service in Cyber-Physical Energy Systems over Fog Computing

      • Korosh Vatanparvar, Mohammad Abdullah Al Faruque

      Pages 123-144

   3. Leveraging Fog Computing for Healthcare IoT

      • Behailu Negash, Tuan Nguyen Gia, Arman Anzanpour, Iman Azimi, Mingzhe Jiang, Tomi Westerlund et al.

      Pages 145-169

6. Back Matter

   Pages 171-172

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This book describes state-of-the-art approaches to Fog Computing, including the background of innovations achieved in recent years. Coverage includes various aspects of fog computing architectures for Internet of Things, driving reasons, variations and case studies. The authors discuss in detail key topics, such as meeting low latency and real-time requirements of applications, interoperability, federation and heterogeneous computing, energy efficiency and mobility, fog and cloud interplay, geo-distribution and location awareness, and case studies in healthcare and smart space applications.

• Cyber-Physical Systems
• Cloud computing
• Fog for 5G and IoT
• Big Data
• Fog and cloud interplay

“The book is central to the understanding and advanced study of fog computing. It follows an effective model, based on eight scientific papers of a very high level, and is suitable for readers who want an introduction to the area, according to an organization inspired by the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) stack.” (Joao Orvalho, Computing Reviews, May, 2018)​

• Department of Computer Science, University of California, Irvine, USA

  Amir M. Rahmani

• Department of Future Technologies, University of Turku, Turku, Finland

  Pasi Liljeberg

• Thinnect, Inc., Sunnyvale, USA

  Jürgo-Sören Preden

• Institute of Computer Technology, TU Wien, Vienna, Austria

  Axel Jantsch

Amir. M. Rahmani is currently an EU Marie Curie Global Fellow at University of California Irvine, USA, and TU Wien, Austria. He is also adjunct professor (Docent) in embedded parallel and distributed computing at University of Turku, Finland. He received his Master’s degree from Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Tehran, Iran, in 2009 and Ph.D. degree from Department of Information Technology, University of Turku, Finland, in 2012. He also received his MBA jointly from Turku School of Economics and European Institute of Innovation & Technology (EIT) ICT Labs, in 2014. He is the author of more than 130 peer-reviewed publications. His research interests span Self-aware Computing, Energy-efficient Many-core Systems, Runtime Resource Management, Healthcare Internet of Things, and Fog Computing. 

Pasi Liljeberg is a professor in Department of Future Technologies, University of Turku, Finland. He received the M.Sc. and Ph.D.degrees in Electronics and Information Technology from the University of Turku, Turku, Finland, in 1999 and 2005, respectively. During the period 2007–2009, he held an Academy of Finland researcher position. He is the author of more than 250 peer-reviewed publications, has supervised nine Ph.D. theses. Liljeberg is the leader of the Internet-of-Things for Healthcare (IoT4Health) research group.

Jürgo Preden is the founder and CTO of IoT Technologies, he was also the founder and CTO of Defendec. Jurgo is also active as a senior research scientist and also serving as the head of the Research Laboratory for Proactive Technologies at Tallinn University of Technology. Jurgo's research interests are focused on cyber-physical systems, more specifically the situation awareness of such systems and the computation and communication in ad-hoc sensing systems. Jürgo Preden represents Estonia in NATO RTA System Concepts and Integration panel and he has been involved in the activities of NATO STO task groups.

Axel Jantsch is Professor in Systems-on-Chip, at TU Wien Institute of Computer Technology, in Vienna, Austria. He was a Professor of Electronic System Design with the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden. He received the Dipl.-Ing and Dr.Tech. degrees from the Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria. His current research interests include VLSI design and synthesis, system-level specification, self-aware computing, Cyber-Physical Systems and Internet of Things, modeling and validation, HW/SW co-design and co-syntheses, reconfigurable computing, and networks-on-chip.

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