Identifying Nearest Fog Nodes With Network Coordinate Systems
Simon Huber, Tobias Pfandzelter, David Bermbach · 2023
Identifying the closest fog node is crucial for mobile clients to benefit from fog computing. In this paper, we analyze the performance of the Meridian and Vivaldi network coordinate systems for this task. To that end, we simulate a dense fog environment with mobile clients. We find that while network coordinate systems really find fog nodes in close network proximity, a purely latency-oriented identification approach ignores the larger problem of balancing load across fog nodes.