We are delighted to announce that a research paper developed under the mF2C Project, has been accepted for inclusion in IEEE Future Technologies Conference (FTC) 2017 conference to be held on 29-30 November 2017 in Vancouver, BC, Canada.
Title “Towards Service Protection in Fog-to-Cloud (F2C) Computing Systems”,
by Vitor Barbosa Souza§*, Wilson Ramírez*, Xavi Masip-Bruin*, Eva Marín-Tordera*, Sergio Sánchez-López*, Guang-Jie Ren+
§ Informatics Department (DPI), Universidade Federal de Viçosa (UFV), Brazil
* Advanced Network Architectures Lab (CRAAX), Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Spain
+ IBM Almaden Research Center, USA
Abstract:
Internet of Things (IoT) services are unstoppably demanding more computing and storage resources. Aligned to this trend, cloud and fog computing came up as the proper paradigms meeting such IoT services demands. More recently, a new paradigm, so-called Fog to Cloud (F2C) computing, promises to make the most out of both both Fog and Cloud, paving the way to new IoT services development. Nevertheless, the benefits of F2C architectures may be diminished by failures affecting the computing commodities. In order to withstand possible failures, the design of novel protection strategies, specifically designed for distributed computing scenarios is required. In this paper, we study the impact of distinct protection strategies on several key performance aspects, including service response time, and usage of computing resources. Numerical results indicate that under distinct failure scenarios, F2C significantly outperforms the conventional cloud.