The cloud-to-thing continuum : opportunities and challenges in cloud, fog and edge computing

Abstract

This is the fifth book in the series, Advances in Digital Business and Enabling Technologies, which aims to contribute to multi-disciplinary research on digital business and enabling technologies, such as cloud computing, social media, big data analytics, mobile technologies and the Internet of Things, in Europe. Previous volumes sought to consider and extend conventional thinking on disrupting finance, the business value of the cloud, and more specifically on cloud computing architectures to greater support heterogeneity and to reliably provision applications and infrastructure on distributed clouds. In many ways, this fifth volume is a companion to the last volume, Managing Distributed Cloud Applications and Infrastructure. Whereas that volume focussed on optimisation from the cloud to the edge, this fifth volume explores the cloud-to-thing continuum.