Evolution of Fog Computing Applications, Opportunities, and Challenges: A Systematic Review

Abstract

The emerging trend of internet of things in recent times is a blessing for various industries in the world. With the increasing amount of data generated by these devices, it makes it difficult for proper data flow and computation over the regular cloud architecture. Fog computing is a great alternative for cloud computing as it supports computation in devices over a large distributed geographical area, which is a plus for fog computing. Having applications in various domains including healthcare, logistics, design, marketing, manufacturing, and many more, fog computing is a great boon for the future. Evolving fog computing in various domains with different methods and techniques has shaped a clear future for it. Applicability of fog computing in vehicular communications and storage-as-a-service has made the term more popular these days. It is a review of all the possible fog computing-enabled applications and their future scope. It also prepares a basis for further research into fog computing domain-enabled services with low latency and minimum costs.