Survey on Job Scheduling in Fog Computing

Abstract

The evolution of the Internet of things(IoT) has led to a massive number of intelligent devices. The tremendous increase in the IoT devices has also led to a huge amount of data transfer to the cloud that in turn increased location awareness, lack of mobility support and latency. Latency plays an important part in critical applications using cloud computing that led to a significant amount of degradation in performance. To overcome the issues due to the increase in data, fog computing was introduced. Fog computing is also called edge computing, which can address certain challenges like security, reliability, resource management, programming models, and job scheduling. This survey paper starts with the definition of fog computing followed by fog applications, prevailing issues as well as research on fog computing and also shed some light on how useful are these in the future of fog computing.