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A Survey on End-Edge-Cloud Orchestrated Network Computing Paradigms: Transparent Computing, Mobile Edge Computing, Fog Computing, and Cloudlet

Ren, Ju, Zhang, Deyu, He, Shiwen, Zhang, Yaoxue, Li, Tao·2020·ACM Computing Surveys
DOI 10.1145/3362031
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Sending data to the cloud for analysis was a prominent trend during the past decades, driving cloud computing as a dominant computing paradigm. However, the dramatically increasing number of devices and data traffic in the Internet-of-Things (IoT) era are posing significant burdens on the capacity-limited Internet and uncontrollable service delay. It becomes difficult to meet the delay-sensitive and context-aware service requirements of IoT applications by using cloud computing alone. Facing these challenges, computing paradigms are shifting from the centralized cloud computing to distributed edge computing. Several new computing paradigms, including Transparent Computing, Mobile Edge Computing, Fog Computing, and Cloudlet, have emerged to leverage the distributed resources at network edge to provide timely and context-aware services. By integrating end devices, edge servers, and cloud, they form a hierarchical IoT architecture, i.e., End-Edge-Cloud orchestrated architecture to improve the performance of IoT systems. This article presents a comprehensive survey of these emerging computing paradigms from the perspective of end-edge-cloud orchestration. Specifically, we first introduce and compare the architectures and characteristics of different computing paradigms. Then, a comprehensive survey is presented to discuss state-of-the-art research in terms of computation offloading, caching, security, and privacy. Finally, some potential research directions are envisioned for fostering continuous research efforts.

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Authors
Ren, J., Zhang, D., He, S., Zhang, Y., & Li, T.
Venue
ACM Computing Surveys
Publisher
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Published
2019-10-16
Volume
52
Issue
6
Pages
1-36
ISSN
  • 0360-0300 (ISSN-L)
  • 1557-7341
DOI
10.1145/3362031
OpenAlex
W2980789769
Cited by
615
References
141
FWCI
48.61
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
www.acm.org/publications/policies/copyright_policy#Background (vor)
Funders
  • 111 Project (B18059)
  • International Science & Technology Cooperation Program of China (2013DFB10070)
  • Huxiang Young Talents Plan of Hunan Province
  • China Hunan Provincial Science & Technology Program (2012GK4106)
  • National Natural Science Foundation of China (61702562 and 61702561)

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