The paradigm of Internet of Things (IoT) is transforming physical environments into smart
and interactive platforms to offer a wide range of innovative services supported by the …

Empowered by computing resources at the network edge, data sensed from Internet of
Things (IoT) devices can be processed and stored in their nearby cloudlets to reduce the …

This paper investigates an efficient placement and chaining of Virtual Network Functions
(VNFs) to provide cloud based IoT services with minimal resource usage cost. We take into …

Mobile edge computing (MEC) offers a way to shorten the cloud servicing delay by building
the small-scale cloud infrastructures, such as cloudlets at the network edge, which are in …

Fog computing provides Quality Of Service to latency sensitive applications in bandwidth
constrained WAN networks. Fog environment consist of a set of IoT devices, fog nodes, and …

The impact of the Internet of Things (IoT) on the evolution toward next generation smart
environments (eg, smart homes, buildings, and cities) will largely depend on the efficient …

Cloud-based computing technology is one of the most significant technical advents of the
last decade and extension of this facility towards access networks by aggregation of …

Improving the communication of Internet of Things (IoT) network is a challenging task as it
connects a wide-range of heterogeneous mobile devices. With an extended support from …

With the emergence of computation-intensive applications such as face recognition, natural
language processing, etc., the performance of mobile devices appears to be weak. Mobile …

In this paper, we introduce a network entity called point of connection (PoC), which is
equipped with customized powerful communication, computing, and storage (CCS) …