A review of fog computing and its simulators

Abstract

Fog computing is defined as the distribution of computing resources between the data devices and the cloud or any other data centre in a distributed computing infrastructure or process. This paper briefly reviews the various definitions, applications, architecture and fog simulators proposed by researchers over the years. In this paper, a comparison table is presented which highlights the key features of simulators available like FogtorchII, iFogSim, Fogbus, MyiFogSim etc.

Subject Classification:

• 68 Computer Science
• 68T09 Computational aspects of data analysis and big data
• 97P80 Artificial intelligence

Keywords:

• Fog
• Cloud computing
• Privacy
• Fog Simulator