Close computing paradigms such as fog and edge have become promising technologies for
mobile applications running on pervasive mobile equipment utilized by a wide range of …

IoT systems are becoming an essential part of our environment. Smart cities, smart
manufacturing, augmented reality, and self-driving cars are just some examples of the wide …

The revolution in information technologies, and the spread of the Internet of Things (IoT) and
smart city industrial systems, have fostered widespread use of smart systems. As a complex …

In recent years, the usage of smart mobile applications to facilitate day‐to‐day activities in
various domains for enhancing the quality of human life has increased widely. With rapid …

Mobile-edge computing (MEC) sinks computation and storage capacities to network edge,
where it is close to users to support delay-sensitive services. However, due to the dynamic …

Automated deployment and run-time management of microservices-based applications in
cloud computing environments is relatively well studied with several mature solutions …

Containers are a form of software virtualization, rapidly becoming the de facto way of
providing edge computing services. Research on container-based edge computing is …

Nowadays, different types of computing-intensive services such as mechanical, aerospace,
civil and environmental applications are often deployed on the cloud since it offers a …

Edge computing is a viable approach to improve service delivery and performance
parameters by extending the cloud with resources placed closer to a given service …

Fog computing is a distributed paradigm that provides computational resources in the users'
vicinity. Fog orchestration is a set of functionalities that coordinate the dynamic infrastructure …