Survey on Edge Cloud and Edge Computing with Emerging Technologies

Abstract

The Internet is developing quickly toward the future “Internet of Things” (IoT) which will possibly connect billions or even trillions of edge devices which could generate massive amount of data at a very high speed and some of the applications may require very low latency. The traditional cloud infrastructure will run into a series of difficulties due to centralized computation, storage, and networking in a small number of datacenters, and due to the relative long distance between the edge devices and the remote datacenters. To attack this challenge, edge cloud and edge computing seem to be a promising possibility which provides resources closer to the resource-poor edge IoT devices and potentially can nurture a new IoT innovation ecosystem. Such prospect is enabled by a series of emerging technologies including Network Function Virtualization (NFV) and Software Defined Networking (SDN). In this survey paper, we examine characteristics among traditional and edge cloud and edge computing with Edge computing security.

Keywords: Internet of Things, edge cloud, edge computing, Network Function Virtualization (NFV), Software Defined Networking (SDN)