Fog and Edge Computing:
Principles and Paradigms
Call for Book Chapters
www.cloudbus.org/fog/book
Introduction
The Internet of Things (IoT)
paradigm promises to make “things” such as physical objects with sensing
capabilities and/or attached with tags, mobile objects such as smart phones and
vehicles, consumer electronic devices and home appliances such as fridge, television,
healthcare devices, as part of the Internet environment. In cloud-centric IoT applications, the sensor data from these “things” is extracted,
accumulated and processed at the public/private clouds, leading to significant
latencies. Fog computing addresses this issue in developing real-time IoT applications, by mainly utilizing proximity based
computational resources across the IoT layers such as
gateways, cloudlets and network switches/routers. Similar approach of utilizing
proximity resources in telecommunication domain is the Mobile Edge computing.
Recently, there is also significant discussion in the similar lines with other
approaches such as Mist computing and Dew computing.
To realize the full potential of Fog computing and similar paradigms,
researchers and practitioners need to address several challenges and develop
suitable conceptual and technological solutions for tackling them. These
include development of scalable architectures, moving from closed systems to
open systems, dealing with privacy and ethical issues involved in data sensing,
storage, processing, and actions, designing interaction protocols, and
autonomic management.
Objectives
The primary purpose of this book is to
capture the state-of-the-art in Fog and Edge computing, their applications,
architectures, and technologies. The book also aims to identify potential
research directions and technologies that will facilitate insight generation in
various domains from smart home, smart cities, science, industry, business, and
consumer applications. We expect the book to serve as a reference for larger
audience such as system architects, practitioners, developers, new researchers
and graduate level students.
Topics of Interest
Topics for potential chapters include, but are not
limited, to:
1.
Fog and Edge Computing Architectures
· Massively scalable
architectures for Fog/Edge/Mist
· Middleware for Fog/Edge
infrastructures
· Openness, resource
sharing and management
· Fog/Edge discovery,
addressing and naming
· Cloud-centric IoT
· Interaction protocols
· Autonomic management
· Open service platforms
2.
Fog/Edge Solutions and Enablers
· Programming models and
runtime systems for Fog/Edge Computing
· Smart infrastructures
· Scheduling for Fog/Edge
infrastructures
· Fog/Edge Computing
applications
· Latency/locality-critical
applications
· Applications and
interactions for Social IoT
· Crowd-sourcing and
crowd-sensing and IoT
· Mobile computing and
smart phones for IoT
· Cyborgs and personal
devices
· Resource-constrained
devices management and optimization
3. Fog/Edge/IoT
Reliability, Security and Privacy
· Robustness and
reliability challenges
· Openness versus
security
· Fog/Edge privacy
challenges and solutions
· Security and identity
management for IoT
· Trust management
· Management policies
· Light-weight
cryptography solutions
· Legal issues in
Fog/Edge clouds
4. Fog/Edge/IoT
Data Management
· Fog/Edge storage
· Data analytics
· Rea-time streaming data
processing
· Knowledge discovery
· Visualization of IoT data
· Lightweight data
structures
· Semantic technologies for
IoT/Fog/Edge
· Data storage and
data-centric solutions
5. Fog/Edge Applications
· Smart Home
· Smart Grid
· Smart Health
· Smart Cities
· Smart Government
· Smart Industrial
Environments
· Industry 4.0
Important Dates - Proposed
Chapter Proposal: You are invited to
submit a 1-2 pages proposal describing the topic of your chapter. The proposal
should include the chapter organization, anticipated number of pages of the final
manuscript and brief biography of authors.
We plan to follow the timeline given below:
Early submission is
highly appreciated, as the editors would like to have progressive dialogue and
work with prospective authors to bring out a book of wide appeal.
If we receive more than one proposal for
a chapter on the same topic, the editors may request authors to collaborate to
develop an integrated chapter.
Please submit your Expression of
Interest (EoI) to both editors by email as part of a
single email message with subject “Fog/Edge Book EoI—CHAPTER
NAME”!
Manuscript Submission
Each accepted chapter
should have about 20-35 A4 pages. We expect to deliver CRC of the book to the
publisher. We request authors to compose their chapter in WORD format. A MS
Word template will be provided later.
Publisher
We
are in discussion with some of the international publishers (e.g., Elsevier/Morgan
Kaufmann/Springer/Wiley). We expect to finalise the publisher soon.
Editors:
Dr. Rajkumar Buyya
CEO,
Manjrasoft, Melbourne, Australia
Director,
Cloud Computing and Distributed Systems Laboratory
School
of Computing and Information Systems
The
University of Melbourne, Australia
Dr.
Satish Narayana Srirama
Mobile
& Cloud Lab
Institute
of Computer Science
University
of Tartu, Estonia