Simulation and performance evaluation of a fog system
Dimitrios Tychalas, Helen D. Karatza · 2018
Nowadays there are numerous applications - especially mobile ones - which use the user's location to show relative content, for example nearby restaurants, or tourist attractions etc. In this article, the simulation of a High Performance System based on Cloud, Clusters, low cost devices and Smartphones is presented. We aim to present the possibilities of combining every available computational resource in order to reduce costs and to also bring computational resources closer to users. The Fog Computing is the most promising solution achieving this goal. Fog Computing extends Cloud Computing by providing virtualized resources and location-based services to the users by utilizing any available resource. We show that the combination of every resource available can result in a significant decrease in the execution time and expenses.