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Context-Aware Mobile Applications in Fog Infrastructure: A Literature Review

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Today’s cloud computing techniques are becoming unsustainable for real time applications as very low latency is required with billions of connected devices. New paradigms are arising; the one that offers an integrated solution for extending cloud resources to the edge of the network and addresses current cloud issues is Fog Computing. Performing Fog Computing brings a set of challenges such as: provisioning edge nodes to perform task volumes downloaded from the Cloud; placing task volumes on edge nodes; resource management on edge nodes; need for a new programming model; programming, resource management, data consistency service discovery challenges; privacy and security and improving the quality of service (QoS) and user experience (QoE). This paper aims at introducing the Fog Computing concept and it presents a literature review on the way it is applied: context-sensitive applications and context-sensitive mobile service platforms. The result of the study is presented as the current research challenges for context aware mobile applications in Fog Computing infrastructure.

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  1. Universidade de Cabo Verde, Praia, Cabo Verde

    Celestino Barros

  2. Universidade Aberta and INESC TEC, Lisbon, Portugal

    Vítor Rocio

  3. Critical TechWorks, Porto, Portugal

    André Sousa

  4. INESC TEC and Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Porto, Portugal

    Hugo Paredes

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  2. College of Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA

    Hojjat Adeli

  3. FEUP, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal

    Luís Paulo Reis

  4. DIMES, Università della Calabria, Arcavacata di Rende, Italy

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  5. Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Montenegro, Podgorica, Montenegro

    Irena Orovic

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Barros, C., Rocio, V., Sousa, A., Paredes, H. (2020). Context-Aware Mobile Applications in Fog Infrastructure: A Literature Review. In: Rocha, Á., Adeli, H., Reis, L., Costanzo, S., Orovic, I., Moreira, F. (eds) Trends and Innovations in Information Systems and Technologies. WorldCIST 2020. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1160. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-45691-7_29

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