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Mobility-Based Resource Allocation and Provisioning in Fog and Edge Computing Paradigms: Review, Challenges, and Future Directions

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Fog and Edge related computing paradigms promise to deliver exciting services in the Internet of Things (IoT) networks. The devices in such paradigms are highly dynamic and mobile, which presents several challenges to ensure service delivery with the utmost level of quality and guarantee. Achieving effective resource allocation and provisioning in such computing environments is a difficult task. Resource allocation and provisioning are one of the well-studied domains in the Cloud and other distributed paradigms. Lately, there have been several studies that have tried to explore the mobility of end devices in-depth and address the associated challenges in Fog and Edge related computing paradigms. But, the research domain is yet to be explored in detail. As such, this chapter reflects the current state-of-the-art of the methods and technologies used to manage the resources to support mobility in Fog and Edge environments. The chapter also highlights future research directions to efficiently deliver smart services in real-time environments.

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Battula, S.K., Naha, R.K., KC, U., Hameed, K., Garg, S., Amin, M.B. (2021). Mobility-Based Resource Allocation and Provisioning in Fog and Edge Computing Paradigms: Review, Challenges, and Future Directions. In: Mukherjee, A., De, D., Ghosh, S.K., Buyya, R. (eds) Mobile Edge Computing. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-69893-5_11

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