Guest Editorial Fog Computing for Industrial Applications

Abstract

The papers in this special section examine the use of fog computing applications in industrial electronics. Due to the increased number of connected things in industrial applications, the growing volume and velocity of Internet of Things (IoTs) data exchange urge for more and more communication resources, leading to the bottleneck in terms of data processing, data latency, and traffic overhead. Fog computing emerges as an alternative for traditional cloud computing to support geographically distributed, latency-sensitive, and QoS-aware IoT applications while reducing the burden of data centers in traditional cloud computing. In particular, fog computing with the features (e.g., low latency, location awareness, and capacity of processing large number of nodes with wireless access) to support heterogeneity and real-time applications is an attractive solution to delay- and resource-constraint large-scale industrial applications. However, with the benefits of fog computing, the research challenges arise regarding fog computing for industrial applications.