Series Editorial: Cloud and Edge Computing

Abstract

Cloud and Edge Computing are currently undergoing a sub-stantive transformation on several fronts, from applications to hardware, and from architectures to devices. This issue of the Cloud and Edge Computing Series solicited articles in the area of Cloud and Edge Computing to address the main issues concerned with evolving processes, supporting pedagogies, and applications in cloud computing, networking, and storages technologies. There have been advances on both the cloud and edge computing fronts that have affected this line of technology. Paradigms, such as computing in virtualization-based architectures, issues on geo-graphical constraints for deploying clouds, and the use of SDN/NFV in clouds, for example, were of special interest for this issue of the Series. Nevertheless, our attention was also focused on data center network (DCN) architectures, security, load balancing, and application data streaming supported by evidence from simulations, analysis, or experiments. Cloud and Edge Computing are also incorporated with the Internet of Things (IoT) ecosystem. IoT requiring multiple access edge computing systems is gaining momentum and considered to be deployed in smart cities, public safety, and e-health. The last, but not least important, factor we expected to see in articles was the standardization aspects of Cloud and Edge Computing technology. We were especially interested in articles that could address communications standards in networking for clouds, fogs, and edge computing.