Study on Data Center Network Topologies for Monitoring Data using Edge/Fog Computing

Abstract

The election of an appropriate data center network topology is key when dealing with surveillance and monitoring processes, such as those devoted to obtaining relevant data for sensor data fusion in any type of remote computing environment so as to perform fault diagnosis and prevention. In this paper, some of the most commonly used topologies to interconnect nodes within a data center bound to edge/fog computing, representing either switch-centric ones or server-centric ones, are reviewed and analyzed from a statistical point of view in order to measure their performance, resulting in server-centric ones doing it better.